Turk Sanderson wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:57 pm
BluesSK wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:44 pm
Oates2Hullie450 wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:48 am
You're right about this, but honest to God, I'm so tired of seeing him not give a full effort. As for the OT winner, I assume the Blues players were gassed, but Thomas fucked it harder than Kyrou on that play IMO.
Speaking of which, I'm really not trying to dredge it up again, and my faceless internet opinion of course means fuck nothing. All I watched from last night is the game recap, but I've watched/illegally streamed about half of the games this year in their entirety. I've been trying hard as hell to like the player since 2018. In Kyrou, I see a guy who's not skating as hard as he can to loose pucks at all, with poor defensive awareness (combed over a million times, but it simply hasn't improved), poor body language almost every time something on the ice doesn't go his way, and someone who plays to his full offensive capability almost exclusively when there's an opportunity for an odd man break. If you isolate Kyrou and watch him alone when he's on the ice, it's nauseating thinking he's locked in with this team for as long as he is. To me at least.
You couple that with his comments off the ice showing a lack of accountability, even after his boo-hoo earlier this year when he received criticism, and I don't think I've disliked a Blues forward this much in my life. I don't want to. I want him to put in the effort you'd expect a professional athlete making what he's making in today's NHL to put in. At 25, I think this is just who he is, and it isn't a cornerstone of a contender.
I agree with everything you've said. I think we have a real problem that is gonna infuriate a lot of fans over the next seven seasons if it continues.
He’s a lazy-ass cherry picker.. he does ok when Thomas or Buch are feeding him pucks, but if he were on a 2nd or 3rd line, not so much.
I would much rather they keep Buch, and pay him Kyrou $$$ on a 4 or 5 year term, and unload Kyrou.
Same for me. I couldn't have stated it better. He clearly doesn't love the game enough, nor care about his teammates enough, or take pride in his work enough to put the work in on his weaknesses in practice and on his own, as well as on the ice in games to be and become the best player he can be. He has some significant natural gifts, and has coasted on them all his hockey-playing life, It worked in his youth hockey and even in Juniors. But it doesn't work as well in The NHL. Too bad they didn't trade him off a year or two ago, before other teams GMs have seen his act enough to know what he is and guess well at what his future will be. I recognised early that he didn't improve on his weaknesses almost at all for year after year, making it obvious that he is not putting much if any work into improving. Nobody wants to play on a team with players who don't care about what happens to their teammates, not putting in an honest effort to help their team win when almost all, or ALL the others, no matter their level of natural abilities, are working hard at it.
