Yeah, this is some writer getting assigned to write up half the league and as you guys have pointed out, that’s pretty clear.
When David Clarkson became a UFA, I realized most of these guys don’t know jack sh!t beyond the stat lines they read. All I heard that summer was how Clarkson was some sort of consistent 30 goal scorer with grit and never once saw any type of critique of his skating, hockey IQ or that he was coming off one of those unsustainable seasons where he got 30 goals because absolutely everything just went in for him. It was crazy, it was like there wasn’t a single guy in the media that had actually watched him play. Hell, I wonder how much the Leafs scouts actually watched him.
it was similar with Gomez. Everywhere he went after NJ, they seemed shocked that they got a playmaker and not a goal scorer, especially in MTL.