OvermanKingGainer
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that was our best third pair all year.
FOther than the fact that our team as a whole were playing like **** when Kulak was around (whether he was off the ice or on), the team was relatively treading water Kulak-Engelland as 3rd pair on roster, VS the other two guys where the third pair was the worst pair. Take a look at the "off" of each player's stats and you see which of the 3rd pair D rode off the back of the rest of the team, and which one was unreasonably treated with "kid-bias".
5v5 SVA
Jokipakka | 424.16 | 44.99 |52.75| 43.97 | 50.36 |38.87|51.12|45.10|53.17|0.998
Bartkowski | 289.01 | 46.80 |52.36| 48.89 | 53.79 |42.31|51.9|45.20| 62.48|1.007
Kulak |286:07 | 49.09 |48.77|47.15 | 48.16 | 48.78 |48.16|37.99| 37.83|0.979
Kulak's abiity to track closely to the rest of the team suggests that as the team improved, either he would have experienced a trickle-down effect and been a strong possession player in the playoffs even with Engelland (like the Irwin-Weber pair), or had the least "disgusting" margin come playoff team.
His low PDO also suggests that as the team's 16 other skaters started scoring goals and getting stops in the regular season, so too would the Kulak-Engelland pair, since they were not unique in their PDO.