The number of teams which has a worse team Goals Against that made it to the 2nd round? Zero.

[Tufted Titmouse]

Nylander was our worst regular player in +G/60 and GA/60. Tavares, Muzzin, Lybushkin were all also offenders.

I think if we're going to make the jump into a truly elite team, investment needs to be made in keeping pucks out of our net. Between this and upgrading our bottom 6, it's going to be very difficult to shift this balance without moving out some serious salary.

Per 60 stats taken from Evolving-Hockey with some TOI filters.

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