Zil
Shrug
- Feb 9, 2006
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Yes. Very happy with his play. I actually think the defensive problems are more 'team' in nature than specifically on the defensemen.
The defensive problems are on Henrik Lundqvist. This isn't a great D by any means but they aren't bad either.
If hank is stopping the low to medium danger chances likes he's supposed to we are probably in first or second place in the league.
It's just easy to blame the D than look at the king who has played behind WAY worse defenses than this
Hank's having a down year, but our defense is putrid. It hasn't been this awful in years. Girardi shouldn't be in the league anymore. Klein has lost a step. Staal is passable at best. None of those three can move the puck out of their own zone and all of them are varying degrees of slow. All of them should be either in the press box or receive extremely sheltered minutes.
Add in that Skjei also really shouldn't be seeing minutes above the third pairing at this point and we have a massive problem. Plus, AV probably benches one of our two or three legitimate puck movers (Clendening) when Staal comes back.
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