I can't emphasize the "not everyone " part of what I said enough.
YOU may have considered the defensive aspect of ADA's game. I'm very happy for you as an individual. I regret my inability to give you gold star stickers.
That doesn't really mean anything when I'm talking in general about this board. This board historically overrates the offensive part of a defense-man's game and spares barely a word for the defensive side.
If ADA's defensive game stagnates then we will see a ton of complaining all year by people completely ignoring if his performance overall just doesn't merit a top 4 spot.
We saw it all last year too. Everytime the guy got scratched it was horror and despair all over this place. He'd work on his shit and play great on his return. It was working for him.
It's just funny to see him blindly penciled in and ALL of the talk is about his passing and skating. That's going to be mitigated if he ends up losing his man too often, gets coned, doesn't cover the front of the net adequately and/or gives up zone entries at a level commensurate with being a bottom pair Dman.
That's the last straw for the counter-argumentation in this issue: his D sucks and you don't even consider it.
Too many people assume that defensemen who are good offensively, are automatically bad defensively.
Agh, he wasn't that bad. He is still very young and this year is the biggest one yet for him from a 'prove it' standpoint. Let his playing answer the questions.
I feel like all of you are attributing other people's arguments to me.
Unless someone hijacked my account all last year, deleted all of my "Be patient with ADA, he looks great, he's just working on stuff" posts and replaced them with mindless complaints.
Just bc this place overall sucks at evaluating the defensive side of the game and ignores it doesn't mean I'm saying ADA sucks at D or that he is going to be trash. I mean exactly what I said, too many people here ignore it. There's no agenda there to shit on ADA.
