This team needs two reliable stay at home d-men in its d-corps.
Hamilton, Giordano and Brodie are all touted for offensive ability, but it often comes at the loss of something at the other end. Now they're too fragile/afraid to do what they're able to in the offensive zone cause every mistake is going in the back of our net. And it appears the system is holding them back a bit as well. Kulak looks to be a guy in the mould of a Brodie-lite and Wideman, Jokipakka and Engelland aren't known as shutdown guys either. We need a couple ####ing Regehr types that'll crunch anything that comes over that blue line and we've needed that since the start of this rebuild. Smid was supposed to be that kind of player but injuries derailed his career unfortunately. I actually think Shlemko was a third pairing guy that could be relied on but of course we let him get away.
Now we have a d-corps full of offensive d-men and jack of all trade d-men and we wonder why we can't shut down the opposition? (part of it is team defence of course, too. but that falls a bit more on the coach)
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