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Rejoint: janv. 2019
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The problem with the defense is outside of Reilly zero puck movers. The new NHL is fast and the defense needs to be able to move the puck up the ice. Makar, Toews, Hughes, Hronek, petrilangelo, Theodore, Josi, Letang, karlsson, Byram, dahlin, power, oel, ekblad, doughty, bouchard, ekholm, I can keep going on a huge list of defenseman. The problem with this defence core is Benoit, edmundson, lyubushkin, McCabe and demelo are below average puck movers. This will keep the puck in our zone too long. Not that those defensemen are bad but we need a defenseman like Liljegren or equivalent added because they are good puck movers as well. An ideal pairing is like Reilly demelo, ???, ??/Liljegren, Benoit /McCabe, edmundson could be ???, but we still need one more for good depth. Reilly has shown to prop up lyubushkin, Hainsey, Schenn etc... because he is a good puck mover. I get the idea where we need grit and toughness on the blueliner but everyone forgets that Tre had Andersson, Hanifin and weegar on defense as well. It was not all Zadorovs and Tanev s.