Huh? You're getting way ahead of yourself here. First off Dallas may not even make the playoffs. Beyond that we gave up what three or four partial breakaways last night? Don't get me wrong, we definitely played better overall. But we have a ways to go before we can take on the Tampas, Bruins and Predators of the world.
My reply was solely aimed at the stat of allowing only 7 ES shots a game. Not who we did it against, not how we did it, just that simple stat. If you're only allowing that many shots a game, you're winning the vast majority of your games. I'm not getting ahead of myself at all on that score. Sure there's harder teams to do it to than Dallas, but that's not the point.
But, since we're here, we can already take on those teams. We're running just as hot as them since January and have beaten all of them this season. That we've chosen Tampa and Boston for two of our off-nights means little - just ask Columbus.
Letang is finding his form? What form would that be, the application form for his brain transplant?
13 points in 19 games, top 10 among dmen for ES points in that period, good +/- and corsi, and nearly twice as many takeaways and giveaways isn't form?
I know stats aren't everything for a reason and that Letang's biggest mistakes rarely show in the numbers, but it does look an awful lot like he's doing something right...