Filip Zadina and Jakub Vrana are two very different players at this point in their careers. Zadina has been underperforming on a bad Detroit Red Wings team, and he has fallen out of favor with tons of fanbase members because he has rarely been able to score, which is why he was drafted to begin with. His consistency wasn’t there, and as the season dwindled on, he slowly stopped doing the right things off the puck in terms of defense and physicality for his slump to feel “acceptable” (in a relative sense). There were plenty of things to like at the start of 2021-22 about Zadina’s off-puck presence, but as more games were played, those faded away.
Filip Zadina and Jakub Vrana need to be stapled together in 2022-23
