You could be overreacting.
This is the same player that was our leading scoring in the playoffs back in 2019-20 and one of the only guys not named Demko to show his worth vs Vegas.
Boeser had similar issues in 2019-20 (missing training, confidence low, timing off)and came back stronger in 2020-21(was our leading scorer that year)
Hughes was awful last year. Now he looks back on track this year.
Horvat had a year when we barely scored during the 1st half of the season then was like a ppg the rest of the way.
Petey hasn't really gone through similar trials till now. This is his go. Even last year when he was a bit slow out of the gate he got back to the Petey we knew and he had 5 goals and 2 assists points in his last 5 games before his season ending to injury.
So if history has shown us anything it's that these guys go through their ups, downs and ups again.