He has been their best point producer every single season he played for them.
Yes, his play off stats have not been great but it was not good by anyone not named Kreider this time around. Guys like Kane, Zibanejad, Trocheck were non factors..
So let’s not make him the scapegoat, he absolutely earns his salary
Literally the most productive P/GP player in franchise history and we’re a damn original six team! Every season he’s had is up there among the greatest of all time for our team. People also seem to forget he was the headliner of the last free agent class right before Covid lockdowns shutdown the league and the global economy, everyone thought the cap was going way up prior to that. And the “superior” players fans throw out there of having comparable salaries were never UFA’s.
Even if they found a team with the cap space to acquire him somehow, we’re not going to get talent of his caliber back; and blah blah blah the cap space.. well, we traded Buchnevich for cap space and used more than what he signed for to sign *checks notes* Nemeth, Reaves, Blais & Goodrow.
Get rid of Panarin and we get rid of half the skill on our team. We need a new coach who is more of a systems guy and more of a hardass like Torts, not a players coach like Gallant who brings out Panarin’s worst habits.