Bojack Horvatman
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- Jun 15, 2016
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Answer me this....how do you judge Green's performance with a roster construction that has 2 top 4 defensemen and 7 that should be playing no higher than the third paring. I have serious concerns over some of the weird deployment that Green does but is it realistic to think they should be a playoff team with this roster? It's like giving someone a bb gun and wondering why they didn't slay the dragon.
These are the worst teams in ga/gp since the beginning of the 19-20 season not including Seattle.
Ottawa
Detroit
Buffalo
San Jose
New Jersey
Vancouver
None of those teams have gotten as good of goaltending as we have from Markstrom and Demko. In fact they all have sub .900 goaltending in that time.
We're also last in xga/gp, and sca/gp, and 6th last in hdsca/gp over that time.
Chris Tanev immediately went back to being one of the best shutdown D in the league after leaving. Schmidt has good defensive numbers and is producing in a top pairing role for Winnipeg. Even Edler has great defensive numbers in a top 4 role. It's not a coincidence that defenders get better once they leave.
I don't think Green has been given tremendous blue lines by any stretch. But, his blue lines haven't been needing great goaltending to be better than Buffalo and Detroit bad.
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