It seems many of the guys that are soft on the puck came from other organizations. Is it Heskeths fault that Wideman, Hudler, Butler, Russell are all soft on the puck and have been their whole careers? Is it the fault of Washington, St. Louis, Boston, Detroit, Buffalo who all had these guys at one point as well? Or is it that some guys are going to be softer on the puck than others and toughness hasn't seemed to be the biggest area of concern for Feaster other than throwing out goons like McGrattan and SOB.
I think if we saw guys that should be strong having issues it may be a concern but for the most those guys above plus Backlund, Baertschi, Cammy are guys you would expect to have trouble and always will because they are weak guys.
Glencross, Stajan, Gio, Brodie, Jones, Monahan and Stempniak, the guys that are more solid are all fine in terms of their strength.
I think it is a case of blaming a guy for a lot of things out of his control.
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