kovazub94
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- Aug 5, 2010
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The adjustments are evident and the forwards are helping the D a lot more here. But having said that to me the biggest thing is mcdonagh Staal and Girardi are all healthy and had a full offseason to recover and train. With how deep we've gone year after year and the injuries these 3 have had to play thru no one has had time to have a normal offseason to get strong. That wasn't the case this summer. All three got healthy trained hard and look significantly better than last year. Girardi included. I've seen him railroad a few guys that just wouldn't have happened a year ago. Staals skating looks like he's 24 again. And mcdonagh looks like a Norris contender.
Like let's be honest we're 7-3 but should be 10-0. We've absolutely dominated every night. Goaltending was shaky if hank is back and from what I saw last night he's definitely on track, well man our D is more than sufficient to win a lot of games with this offense.
We should not overpay for any D man. If we can make a fair trade great but I'm not giving up miller AND skjei for trouba or anyone.
This. I was in the re-tool camp (vs. blow-up and rebuild) because there was too much of the upside to the roster from the continuous development of uyts and a full offseason for vets. Not arguing that the additions of Ziba and Vesey were significant but even without them (but we Brassard and Buch in top 6) we'd probably be close to where we are today. Everything else that Gorton so masterfully did this offseason was of a low key. On the other hand there'd be probably more impatient calls for the update to D.