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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The blueline was the main reason I thought this was a bottom 5 team heading in. I just couldn't imagine a world where that patchwork group could be good enough. But I don't know how much worse they would be, because Rasmus has been off for a while now (my view is he's hobbled by an injury because he's not moving right), so I don't know if the gap is that big.
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People want to point to Andersson, or Wolf, or any one piece as the difference between where we are and the absolute basement, but the system spreads out so much responsibility and there is such a a commitment to team defence that it ended up far greater than the sum of its parts, and because of that, no one player is that big of a difference maker on their own.
This isn’t a team being held together by one or two star players. It’s a generally low-skilled, hard working team where on any given night a fourth liner can have a bigger impact than the entire first line.