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Originally Posted by Gaskal
Ok, so on top of him finally realizing the 4th line should be given like 5 min a night, he finally stopped doing the square peg in round hole thing and went back to lines that work. Defensemen (I guess at the very least Rasmus) were more aggressive in pinching. Middle of the ice was used in a few breakouts.
More progress!
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Yeah, the defence has been too passive this year. I absolutely expected Giordano to fall back a bit due to age, but he's our only other D than Anderson with more than 1 goal. For me it's absolutely inexcusable for a guy like Hanifin to have 0 goals and 3 assists in 22 games after they go out and get him a more steady stay at home partner to play with. This isn't Ken Daneyko who's going to stay in the league by kicking the crap out of 90% of opponents and seldom venturing outside his own zone to keep a job. This is a mobile guy who can take some chances. He's never going to be a 50 point guy, and I think he has a terrible shot....but he's been a 30 point guy, so theres no reason he can't still be a 30 point guy like he was 2 years ago. They need to get the defence more engaged in contributing to creating offence.