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Originally Posted by Itse
I believe most guys on this level can be taught to defend adequately if they just have the attitude, the physical side and decent enough hockey sense. None of these seem to be the problem, in fact his attitude seems to be as good as you could possibly hope for.
The risk I see is more that some guys, especially defensemen, just can't find a way to combine playing offense and defense. If they defend properly their offense goes away, if they go on the offense their defense goes down the drain.
We'll see how it goes with Poirier, but I agree with what seems to be the general attitude, I love a pick like this at this point in the draft.
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I think you make a very good point re combining offence with defence. I have noticed that Kylington has been working so hard to get the coaches to trust him defensively that we ar seeing very little of the explosive offensive ability he showed earlier.