Agreed that the 2018-19 D corps was excellent and a huge reason for the regular season success. Also agreed that the Kylington, Andersson, and to a lesser extent Hanifin, we have now are very different players.
It was also a pretty mobile backend (worse when you replace Kylington with Fantenberg). That’s why it surprised me that the Avs speed was the difference in the playoffs. Overall they are definitely slower now, but play an entirely different team style as well
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