Jones with honorable mention, but Engelland all the way. His take-on-all-comers fight turned the loss on the ice into a rallying point for game 3.
Blocks shots, solid defense, and 25 minutes in Game 6...as solid as can be and required minutes considering without Smid and Diaz, Hartley's 6th defenseman is trusted with only 3 minutes last night.
Been that way since Gio has gone down...someone had to step up, and while the top 3 of Brodie, Wideman and Russel all did, the third crew of Diaz, Schlemko and more regularly Engelland, have stepped it up huge.
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