What you need to reflect on is that Drais makes a lot of goals happen with those "fancy passes" For instance a couple games ago in what is arguably the pass of the season that led to a Connor goal. If that pass doesn't work you might call it a dumb play. But theres good reward, and no real risk on the play. The probable worse that occurs is icing.
Nor is Drai makng incredibly high risk leading to own goal passes.
he's making pretty good decisions with the puck generally. Its always a risk reward game, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Because in competitive sports two teams are on the field its the other teams job to stop something. So that of course its impossible to only make passes or plays that work..
Case in point just the last game. Connor makes a pass over to Chiasson for what he figured was automatic goal. But the play was broken up at the last second and it didn't happen. Connor is on the bench staring at the monitors wondering how it didn't go. To viewers, to those in the audience, it looked like a sure goal. But one opponent got a stick in there and made a better play. The nature of competitive sport.
Good players succeed more than they fail. Everybody fails from play to play. It wouldn't be competitive sport otherwise.