Just from rewatching some highlights and thinking about it more, our defense really kills our offense. Like, I don't watch many other teams other than the Devils but from what I've seen other teams just have much more active defensemen in the offensive zone. They're not just standing stationary at the blue line, shifting across depending on which side of the ice the puck is on. But they're actually moving up and down in the zone, making the wingers always looking out, creating space for themselves to get open for a pass or shot, etc... Ours don't do that at all. We've seen Severson and Auvitu do it a little but when we start to get sustained pressure in the zone it's so ineffective because really it's just the forwards cycling to one another while our defenseman wait.
And maybe that's just the problem with our team, we don't really have defensemen capable of doing that. Severson definitely can and I'd like to see him do it more than he already has. Auvitu can as well but he doesn't get that much ice time currently. I don't remember Moore being active in the offensive zone as of late but maybe that's just me forgetting. And then Lovejoy, Quincey and Greene aren't that good at it and hardly do it. Greene has tried here and there but he just isn't that good of an offensive defenseman contrary to what Shero believes.
