Just glancing at Willander's stats, something that sticks out is his penalty minutes.
Minutes for the other three apparent top four D: 54, 45, 29.
Minutes for Willander: 6.
Can the Willander watchers tell us whether, on balance, that striking contrast is more due to a complete lack of a physical game, or, rather, to smart positional play and elite skating meaning he's rarely forced to take a penalty?
One thing of note with Willander
He'll cross check a guy but never retaliate, so like an example scrum around the net, he'll throw first cross check or push right after the whistler, but never retaliate. They never take that guy, even in the NHL.
Willander talks though and in big rivalry games like against BC he just gets face to face with perrault and especially Leonard and just talks, they fast wash him and he comes back again talking close up
BU is undisciplined as frank
Hockey East is the most penalized conference
Cole hutson........... is sooooooo damn undisciplined, and he's been benched for it.
to be a freshman and the 3rd most penalized player in the NCAA with the world junior break is brutal
He had a nice stretch since the world juniors of clearing that up which is good
so many stick infractions, its tripping penalty or slashing penalty every second game it seemed like.
and this isnt garland, who draws penalties and maybe takes the other guy with him.
and he got kicked out for face masking which is taking your glove off and putting your hands in the cage and yanking.
What makes it more frustrating is McCarthy also takes a F-load of penalties, and you guessed it
McCarthy is Hutson's partner, so they always throw the pairing 5v5 in a damn blender, becuase that pairing is always taking penalties
for context McCarthy is also top 15 in the NCAA in penalties
its ridiculous
