At the end of the day a big part of the goaltending problem here last year especially at the start of the year was that defense almost seemed like a four letter word and positionally this team never got it together last year.
You can only win so much with things like heroic shot blocking and stretch passes, and we saw what happened when teams adjusted to Hartley's system.
Ramo wasn't bad when he came back up from the minors, Ortio seemed to get his poop together later last year.
If teams are going to hold us over the barrel I would be perfectly content to have Ramo and Ortio back next year behind a better positional defensive system and see how it rolls.
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