Judd

You know, certain guys have the talent to probably overcome not a great game as far as the details.

But most of this team does not.

And so that's what I want to see because five goals against Volstead last night was not great.

But to go back, I don't know about you.

How many of those goals do you blame directly on him?

Because it felt to me like the defense and the people in front of him let him down more than he let his teammates down.

which I guess is good news.

We'll, we'll see.

Cause of course then once he skates, you have to see how that goes.

Um, but yeah, yeah, he is, he is absolutely instrumental and you know, Ryan Hartman has scored goals.

So this is not to denigrate his play.

So good for him.

But when you take Eric Sinek off his line...

And and when you, you know, take him out of the faceoff equation, it just it weakens.

It weakens this team.

It's why he is one of the top players that I'm the most concerned about at the Olympics, because if something happens there again, I don't think you have any shot like, you know, Colorado and Dallas are tough enough.

If you, if you're at full strength and you can have guys out here and there, but Eric's neck to me, especially playoff wise, that's a non-starter.

So if you don't have him, you're in huge trouble.

I'm looking at, uh, I'm looking at the recent play of, uh, Kirill Kaprizov and curious to get your thoughts on this.

I've just counted 13 games and three goals in this past 13 games.