“In defending you have to give up offence sometimes. I’m sure there is a balance, and we have to learn that. I have to learn that. It’s something I can do a better job of, to go out with a defending mindset first.” (By SportsnetSpec)
“It’s not hard, because we want to win. Connor and I, we’re here to win,” began Draisaitl, who has sprinkled one ‘even’ game into his past 16 performances, against 15 on the minus side for a collective minus-25. “We want to play offensively because that’s what we’re supposed to do. That’s our job just as much as it to defend.
So we looked back over the previous 10 seasons at the Top 5 NHL scorers, a group of 50 players from 2009 to 2019. Do you know how many of those players finished the season with a minus next to their name?season. That qualifies as an aberration. Installing change in Washington was a lengthy process endured by two coaches, as Bruce Boudreau and Barry Trotz took turns sculpting the Capitals’ game from a dominant regular season brand into something that could finally win four rounds and a Stanley Cup.
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