The Great Weal
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- Jan 15, 2015
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Well the stats, the coaching staff, and my eye test say that Dach is struggling significantly more than Suzuki.We must be watching different games because if there's been one saving grace to dach's early season, it's that he's been coming back deep in the d zone and intercepting passes/breaking up plays fairly consistently.
I would be pissed off too if I take the worst and most costly penalties because I keep getting beat. You're making it seem like taking terrible penalties because you're frustrated is a good thing.#1 guy (and captain) being our go-to offensive leader and still deciding to take games off to start the year while whining to the media that they want to 'go for it' is not a great look. That entire line is getting buried despite Cole coming out like gangbusters. Nick might have points but he has looked terrible. He looks unwilling to chase the puck or implicate himself physically. Dach looks visibly frustrated, but Suzuki doesn't look like he's checked in enough to care yet.
The entire narrative this offseason was that Dach would help this team this season tremendously and that he'd easily replicate what Monahan did for us last year. Now the narrative has shifted. For the record, I am excusing this year for Dach but I'm not blaming every issue with him so far because of the injury. Just like last year when Cole was carried a good chunk of the season by Suzuki and Slaf and people here were excusing it because of his shoulder when he himself is not accepting that excuse.I'm not dragging suzuki because I think he's gonna have a bad year or because I don't like him, I'm just pointing out that any double standard here is going the other way than what you're stating. Having high expectation for a guy who missed an entire year is insane.
I am 100% confident Suzuki's worst game with an injury is vastly better than Dach's worst game. Dach is most definitely the worst player on the team at the moment and the linemates excuse is a very bad one. Putting him on the wing with Suzuki and Caufield should have been done way sooner, he's getting killed out there.Let's put it this way...cave in Suzi's knee, take him out of the game for a year and then give him armia and newhook as linemates. How good does he look? Worse than he already does, I bet. Yikes.