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Originally Posted by Bingo
Why try and fit a team record completely on to a single pairing?
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The whole team was top 2/3 in Corsi. Didn't seem to matter much. May have been the only difference between a slightly below .500 record and complete freefall.
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Originally Posted by Bingo
The team record doesn't in any way take away from the fact that those two together in the second half of a shortened season were elite.
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True. But it is clear an elite D pairing does not a winning team make. Even for the stretch they were elite. Do we just blame goaltending?
Sutter may be able to get an underachieving team to play fundamentally sound hockey down the stretch. Didn't translate into a winning record.