StutzlesTapeJob
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- Dec 22, 2008
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I’m in the boat that our defensive problems are 60% team defense and effort problems, 40% skill/personnel on D. In that regard I don’t think trading away nor upgrading bottom d men will make a huge impact.
I wish I could find words that aren’t as lightning rod, but overall I think our team needs more energy/motivated/combative/high compete players. Too many games this season we don’t look engaged and don’t look willing to play the kind of high effort high battle hockey it takes to win consistently. We look like a club team.
I’m not talking about fights, fear, unskilled hockey. It’s more about better back checks, cycling for possession, man marking, emotional response when sleep walking.
Best profile would be more attitudes like we see from hornquist at times. Not every game is great, but he competes hard and gets his nose dirty almost every night. I’ll take bottom half roster turnover in that direction, d or forward, if it doesn’t involve major assets.
I wish I could find words that aren’t as lightning rod, but overall I think our team needs more energy/motivated/combative/high compete players. Too many games this season we don’t look engaged and don’t look willing to play the kind of high effort high battle hockey it takes to win consistently. We look like a club team.
I’m not talking about fights, fear, unskilled hockey. It’s more about better back checks, cycling for possession, man marking, emotional response when sleep walking.
Best profile would be more attitudes like we see from hornquist at times. Not every game is great, but he competes hard and gets his nose dirty almost every night. I’ll take bottom half roster turnover in that direction, d or forward, if it doesn’t involve major assets.