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Originally Posted by Preds Partisan
That's part of the problem with Trotz, SK won't sit because he can play defense, Wilson sits because he can't play defense. Trotz overvalues defense at the expense of offense. He's o.k. with an offensive black hole on a top line, but refuses to allow for a defensive black hole in a guy like Wilson. SK's lack of offense is probably worse than Wilson's lack of defense at this point, but for Trotz, that doesn't matter.
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4.5 goals allowed on average in games one and two. 0.5 in games three and four. Trotz was ok with a defensive blackhole in Radulov playing until he violated team rules. AK is hit or miss defensively. The fact that Wilson was shuffled out of the lineup as a direct result of those two acquisitions gets ignored far too often here.
The Yotes are beating us with old school Predators hockey ... play solid defense against a team that is more talented on paper, wait for a mistake, capitalize. We did it to teams for years, now we're on the receiving end.