Agreed. This team is better this year. Edstrom alone is better than 5 of the 6 guys you listed above (and I like Vesey).Imagine our bottom six was:
Cuylle - Bonino - Brodzinski
Vesey - Goodrow - Pitlick
Because that's what it was last year.
Hate 5 on a defenseman. Makes me think of Dale Purinton.
who's decidedly east west. kakko?
i feel like y'all don't watch him play lol he wants to grind in the corners and make a low high pass, go to the net to jam, recover the puck, and do it again. he likes to work behind the net and feed net front.
Plus they had deadweight Wheeler and Kakko in the top 6 .Imagine our bottom six was:
Cuylle - Bonino - Brodzinski
Vesey - Goodrow - Pitlick
Because that's what it was last year.
The only reason why I think about Dale Purinton is because while he was on the team, they once showed during a pregame show that a fan from Japan had a giant Dale Purinton tatto on his arm or leg where he was skating through fire.Me reading a sentence about Dale Purinton, doesn't even make me think of Dale Purinton.
I spend 100% of my day thinking about our 5 on 4 PP and trying to preserve it at all costs and I have no notes about the 4 on 3. What the hell are you supposed to do? There are no seams. Strike those opportunities from the stats.I hate to complain about anything because I like so much of what I'm seeing, however just one nitpick:
The 4 on 3 PP continues to baffle me. Static, basically no movement, everyone outside the 'house' and just playing catch until they get a 60 foot one timer. It just makes no sense. You see it creep into 5 on 4's with PP1 sometimes too. They need movement, when they get static and pass around the outside is when the PP goes cold like it did in the playoffs.