Adtar02
@NateThompson44 is a bum
There's nothing "rabid" about being skeptical of exaggerated "homer" claims.
As I've shown, Giroux has been a good, but not great playoff performer.
He's a very good but not great even strength regular season scorer.
His best attribute is as a power play QB, but he's not that far above his peers.
Last five years, he's 3rd in pp/60 on the power play, behind Backstrom and Malkin, and ahead of Kucherov, Shattenkirk, Datsyuk and Crosby.
5x5 he isn't even among the top 50 scorers.
It's not "slamming" Giroux to call him a very good but less than elite player.
He's not the best offensive player in the league and he's pretty middle of the road defensively.
His peak was from 22-26 years old, a nice bounce back season last year at LW, but it's doubtful he'll stay at that level going forward.
The problem is “he is and elite player.” And you trash him for no reason.
It’s funny cause when the team was good he was a beast in the playoffs. Once the team became a one line team. Pre Hak till hopefully this year they were easy to beat. Especially in the playoffs.
It also should not be a shock that the team’s, that is a bubble team, has bad goaltending, and gets dominated, players don’t have high point totals