I was watching the highlights after reading this post. Is it because he was rarely checking his man? Can you explain a bit more please?

Don't know why you're crapping all over PLD.
There are 18 other players on that bench including Wheeler, Schiefelle and Morrissey who are the leaders.
The whole team looked bad and that's a problem with leadership.....not just PLD, yes he played bad as well.

The rumors about the toxic environment in the Jets dressing room seem to have some merit from the looks of it.

We got it, the first time, u posted the exact same thing.

Except Scheiffele and Morrissey weren’t on that bench, injured. Just Wheeler, an old guy who looked like he was giving it his all

I found his effort defensively was bad. He barely seemed to want to sweat. Offensively he wasn't even that much more interested. He didn't drive into empty spaces, he stayed in the perimeter. When he scores his disallowed goal, even his face reaction was like "meh, i don't care'. He just doesn't seem to WANT to win.

Thanks for clarifying!

I'm not sure you can judge a player in an elimination game. Sometimes teams cave under the pressure. I remember when the Habs lost to the Bolts in the final, the despair was the same. No one could do ANYTHING. No one had anything left to give!

True, fair point.