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Originally Posted by Karl
But he is often hurting the team defensively.
If you're not helping, you're hurting. Not always the case by any means mind you, but unfortunately that is the case for Neal.
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The stats don’t show this.
He may make the odd goof, but he is rarely the cause of goals against. A goal against is also generally the result of two or more players making a mistake on the same play as well.
He is helping. He’s driving the play toward the opposition’s net at a pretty damn good clip. If you look at last year, that’s where the 3rd and 4th lines were hurting the team. They were getting buried, and not scoring. This year those lines are driving the play, but just not scoring.