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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Moon I agree with a lot of your posts but you think on such a narrow bandwidth. Butler isn't a great player but he's an NHL player. He's not the reason this team has played poor team defense since Brent Sutter left. There have been lots of teams of limited talent that have played tight defensive games but it takes a team effort from the coaches to the players. I don't think Butler is holding this team back from playing good team defense nor do I think Wideman, Russell, Giordano, etc are. This team simply isn't well coached in this area of the game. The effort is there but there's just a lack of discipline and structure.
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I have commented many times about the poor defensive system/lack of any system these guys play.
I don't think it is solely a lack of talent on the defensive end that contributes to their struggles. But the combination of poor talent and no system is what has us last in the league defensively.
I will have to disagree on him being an NHL player. He is god awful out there and was bad, bad, bad in Buffalo as well.