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I wonder if the dismay at EK65 might have to do with the long stretch of futility that the power play experienced.
Nothing is wrong. He's a 55 point per 82 games played defenseman since he came to San Jose in 2018-19, excluding his outlier massive year. He's also a below average defender. We're getting his norm. People's expectations were just unrealistic.
The real problem is that he's not worth 11.5M (with the Petry retention it took to bring him here).
He's worth closer to 6.5 or 7M.
EK65 reminds me a bit of Geno in some ways he’s a high risk high reward type of player . That’s where I believe the backlash comes from . It has been a crowd for years that wanted the penguins to get rid of Geno . Great players do the things that made them great in the first place and at times it doesn’t always look good . EK will be fine he’s improving just like the team is improving.
he's played a ton of minutes for us and still healthy. that's a win.
come playoffs (god willing) it'll be exciting to see where he's at.
I get excited when I see Reilly rip on net. Im still fairly green to this game but I can still recognize when somebody has special talents. I could care less about the the lack of goals as of late. I think he puts quality shots on net, pressures the opposing tender with those shots. I think his efforts and skill is clearly on display. The expectations of Karlsson were high because of his previous years credentials. His numbers dropping a bit shouldn't be any surprise given the talent surrounding him. Whose to say we can't use that same argument for Reilly Smith?
Being a Pittsburgh fan from Ottawa seeing Karlsson for years he isn't the problem he is just a single person on a team hard to blame an individual besides goalie but even at that if no defense can you blame the goalie?
Take him off the first pp unit. It’s costing us our playoff spot. I’m not mad that we got him but something needs to change for our PP.
Nothing is wrong with him! 😂 God some of you couch bandwagon fans are quick to call someone horrible and criticize there play. He didn’t forget how to play hockey 😂! He’s still scored 101 points last season. He’s a high risk player that isn’t use to playing with people who are so good or better than him. He’s still trying to find his spot on the team and find his role! He still going to get 60-70 points this season!! That’s a lot of points.
Overall, I think Karlsson has fit in nicely. We all knew he wasn't going to score 100 points this year and he didn't need to in order to be successful. If you look at his numbers, they are pretty good. He has 7 goals 21 assists and 28 points which is fourth most on the team. I don't need to remind people, this team struggled to get offensive contributions from the blue line last year. Outside of Kris Letang, it was not good offensive production from the defensemen last year.
Overall, he's a plus 11 he's made his mistakes, but I think he's been pretty solid in his defensive game.