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I agree with an awful lot here. The low hanging fruit here is probably replace matt Ellis with an assistant to try to get something out of the pp. Everybody likes to rag on the 4th line and guys like jost and olofsson, but to me, the top 6 has a lot to answer for. Skinner might be the worst defensive player in the league, but at least he's on the wing, frankly Thompson and cozens aren't good defensively either, and if your top 2 centers can't play d, and mittelstadt isn't exactly known for his d either, well that's a mess. Still hopeful for cozens, I don't love him on the pp, and I especially don't like him as a shooter, when he's taking wrist shots from outside the faceoff circle, that's not gonna keep the other team honest. Power is starting to worry me- he's got a real mike wilson vibe going- and that's not a good thing. I'm not a fan of jokiharju, if we had two or three defensemen that were more physical and frankly better, I don't think I would hate jokiharju, but as it stands, our top 5 defensemen are soft, and really only Samuelsson is a defense first guy. Too many passive players, no defensive system, not enough players capable of playing defense, a power play that can't bail them out, and a few goalies who aren't good enough to consistently pick up the slack.
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