There’s no doubt he scored a goal last night of beauty, right?
The breakaway, bumps a slump, stone faced, and..not smiling, not celebrating with the group, just sort of skates to the bench.
My take on it from a player who fashioned himself as like one quarter of the offensive player going Nylander was, he is embarrassed that he has been so unproductive in the month of December.
And so, when he scores, he can go one to two ways he can celebrate wildly, monkey off the back, «look at me now», or he can be like, I can’t believe it took that long, I’m embarrassed, let’s just get back to work.
And I take that as a guy. Like, if I would have gone seven games without a goal, me not Willie, me, and I scored the eighth game, I would not be celebrating wildly, o’d be like, let’s get back to work.
I’m glad that’s over, but I’m a little embarrassed that it went on as long as it did, that’s how I interpreted it. – Mike Johnson