Some defensive lapses, but not nearly as many as feared. He's generally looked pretty effective on that front- but he is getting sheltered minutes on the 3rd pair. Physicality looks good, including tonight. He brings some sandpaper between the whistles, which is good. He and Cole have added a lot on that front.
If we still had an organ I’d be begging for them to play three blind mice.The refs tonight:
I'd much rather keep him, if He plays like this here.
Somehow we’ll replace the guys we lose with better and cheaper guys. This is Tulsky’s world, we’re just living in it.
We don’t have a single soul in this organization that can replace Tro. I know you also mean we can trade for someone, but no idea who that’s going to be.
That’s all good to hear but the bolded is because people who don’t like him gave him the rep of being awful defensively because they disagree with his political views and don’t like him because of his history. He’s better defensively than most people think. He’s not great defensively but he’s better than the average offensive defenseman. People were claiming he’s low tier defensively but that’s realistically not the case
I mean he’s well liked in the locker room wherever he goes, he’s just a hot head. I do hope he does well with the Canes and sticks there long term. His defensive play is largely a result of his history as opposed to his actual on ice play though. It always confused me how people claimed he was bad defensively because if you watched any Rangers game since he’s been here he was never the problem defensively, especially considering the effort and physicality he brings
