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I never said anything about adding grit. You tend to like to marry the two concepts. Vanesse players can also penetrate the house area in the offensive zone, and when they do it opens up all their options to make finesse plays. Willingness to go to dirty areas on the ice has nothing to do with grit, it has everything to do with a player's willingness to go to an area that most people don't want to go. That's not grit, that's playing team hockey and effective hockeyThe whole thing is how we approach it. We don't penetrate because our offense does precisely f*** all to move anyone out of position.
Adding grit is only going to make it worse. Goodrow is "willing" and was supposed to be part of correcting it.
It's gotten worse because we keep adding slow ass plugs with no ability.