I’ll say the same thing that I said earlier - those questions become irrelevant when Panarin’s giveaway number is so far removed from the pack and so much larger than any other player of his caliber over the past several years. Also, those questions seem kind of useless when we can answer them pretty easily by watching the games. This isn’t a massive sample size where one can’t reasonable remember HOW Panarin accumulated all of those turnovers. It’s 9 games. He has 23. They aren’t from “passing it to LOL Nemeth”. They aren’t from driving the play in the attacking zone. They’re horrible, lazy turnovers that show he’s unwilling to play good fundamental hockey. Getting challenged at the blueline? Hmmm I could make sure the puck gets deep or I could try a spinning no-look behind the back pass to no one. That’s a move that accounts for at least 4-5 of the turnovers because he does it repeatedly. Dangling at your own blueline and getting stripped? That’s another couple.
By the way, compared to his 23 giveaways in 9 games… he has 6 takeaways, good for 111th per 60.
