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Old 06-22-2016, 02:03 PM   #5654
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Cover the only three forwards with any finish? The bigger question to ask is how does that blue line stop anyone else? That group is buttery soft. Great at moving the puck but No one is going to have any fear against that group. You need a blend of skills. Don't see that defense surviving in the Pacific.
There is so much wrong with this post I don't know where to begin. The D is not "buttery soft", they are excellent two way D men who are solid positionally and use great stick work to strip pucks. They are not going to take themselves out of position to try and throw bone shattering hits. Kylington needs to work on the defensive side but Hickey is excellent. How does covering three forwards work? So you are going to leave two talented offensive D to do whatever they want? We would destroy everyone. Everybody would fear that D group, not from a physical status but from the fact they would literally pick the other team apart. Look at Pittsburgh D, many consider them soft and how did that work out against the big bad Sharks? You also talk like we have nothing up front, we have Bennett, Gaudreau, Monahan, Frolik, Backlund, and some other young promising pieces as well.
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