this is kinda confusingly stated, so forgive me if i misunderstand you here. but, i gather the gist of your message is that we're being shortsighted and whiney here in this thread. i disagree. i mean.. if you applied that accusation to most things on this site, you'd be right a vast majority of the time. however, Luke Schenn is regressing in his development. this 'kid' is making very very basic mistakes. when he should take the man, he doesn't. when he shouldn't, he does. he doesn't take away passing lanes and continually misses his assignments. he keeps 2 hands on the stick to such an extreme that he's not utilizing any reach. he routinely screens out mason and, even worse, has deflected more goals into our own net that i can remember a D man doing in a long time. i've keyed on Luke several times this year because, to me, he's been a glaring weakness on defense. i can remember about 2 or 3 games where he played an overall solid game. on too many occasions he's put himself into limbo land where he is essentially not doing anything. we could go into all the numbers line by line, but i think that you'll find the same thing i did... his overall numbers are in a real decline. sure, we could argue ice time as a major factor in that too, but why do you think his ice time is down? because the flyers actually see what we're seeing here in this thread. Luke Schenn is a bust... right here, right now. i'm not gonna play clairvoyant and suppose that he cannot rebound, being that is only 25 y/o, but at a $3.6m cap hit i think we can agree on one thing... HE IS A PROBLEM. He's in his 6th full nhl season now... i think we can drop 'developing' and recognize him for what he is now.