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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Lots of credit to the goalies, and rightfully so. Not enough talk about this. The defense was supposed to be terrible - and terrible defense negates good goaltending (and good goaltending was by no means a certainty).
Instead of good goaltending, we've gotten very good, and at times, great goaltending. But at the same time, we've gotten at least decent defense, and arguably good, or at least pretty good defense.
All of Bahl, Pachal, Miromanov, and Bean have been as good or better than hoped. No surprise from any one of them, but for all 4 to be playing this well, nobody could have predicted that.
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Totally true. It goes further as Huska (and with the AHL results, likely the team) has developed a strong team-defense system. The forwards are regularly dropping back seamlessly when defenders pinch. Weegar and Miromanov were both all over the offensive zone last night when they were pushing to tie the game up and all the forwards were consistently reading and covering the pinch.
I don't think this takes away from Wolf's play, as he's reading plays and making saves that he shouldn't be making, but it also allows him to trust his guys and not scramble to cover up defensive mistakes... and he's certainly less scrambly this year than when the defensive system was breaking down last year.
Ultimately, if this team gets into the playoffs, Huska has to get some Jack Adams' recognition.