When it comes to Alexander Semin, I feel like one of those parents who has a child with incredible intelligence and the ability to achieve whatever he wants, but he refuses to study or apply himself. He has such great innate abilities, but he squanders them simply because he doesn’t feel like working and developing them. In Semin the Caps have a player who acts just like that, except instead of homework and studying we are of course talking about effort and achievement on the ice — and overall work ethic. Semin is a player I have watched for many years, and one I find exciting and intriguing to study. Too bad he just doesn’t seem like he wants to fully develop his inordinate God-given skills and acts like he doesn’t care. As a result, just like the parent I mentioned earlier, I’m not mad at him, just disappointed in his wildly vacillating impact on the ice in Washington. I see a ‘C+’ student who should be straights ‘A’s.’
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