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Well to be fair to Goligoski, his worse play came in the beginning of the season when he was paired with the crap that is Gonchar, That's also when he ate his HS. Once he got paired with somebody else his play picked back up.
They were like -8 and -9 (far and away worst on team at that time) The minute they gave him someone other than Gonchar his overall play improved, by the end of the season he was really good.
Not to say Goligoski isn't at fault for any of his early season play, but once he got away from Gonchar and got his confidence back up, he was pretty good.
Also the team utilized him in some games for 28-30 minutes(especially in the stretch).
The defense will be better because of Spezza and Hemsky though. Not that either are "dynamite" in the defensive zone, But a second line that is speedy, and able to actually maintain offensive zone possession is going to cut down on the amount of time we spend in the defensive zone, also getting to puck to players of their caliber so they can move it into the offensive zone, instead of the "try to clear the zone and hope it goes far enough for a line change" method that every line but Seguin's basically used.
Also defensive is going to improve if they just scratch Gonchar. That'd be a huge improvement.
They were like -8 and -9 (far and away worst on team at that time) The minute they gave him someone other than Gonchar his overall play improved, by the end of the season he was really good.
Not to say Goligoski isn't at fault for any of his early season play, but once he got away from Gonchar and got his confidence back up, he was pretty good.
Also the team utilized him in some games for 28-30 minutes(especially in the stretch).
The defense will be better because of Spezza and Hemsky though. Not that either are "dynamite" in the defensive zone, But a second line that is speedy, and able to actually maintain offensive zone possession is going to cut down on the amount of time we spend in the defensive zone, also getting to puck to players of their caliber so they can move it into the offensive zone, instead of the "try to clear the zone and hope it goes far enough for a line change" method that every line but Seguin's basically used.
Also defensive is going to improve if they just scratch Gonchar. That'd be a huge improvement.