Colton Parayko is baby shit soft. That’s why.
The exact same saying I applied to the much better defenseman, Jay Bouwmeester, applies more succinctly to the tall drink of anti-Ivan Drago water that essentially watched the Colorado Avalanche walk all over his team last night.
There’s something odd yet completely visible about Parayko’s ice mentality. He’s a forward trapped in a defenseman’s body; all he wants to do is take the puck up ice with his big height and stick-handling. Maybe that’s where he belongs. Just about everyone else on defense can perform the job better than Parayko, who likes being a statue in his own end.