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Sens Need Some ‘O’ On Their ‘D’
by Paul on 08/02/08 at 07:37 AM ET
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from Don Brennan of the Ottawa Citizen,
Look no further than the last two Stanley Cup champions to see what every coach preaches: Successful teams get offence from their defence.
The Red Wings’ “Top 6” (Nicklas Lidstrom, Brian Rafalski, Niklas Kronwall, Brad Stuart, Brett Lebda and Andreas Lilja) combined for 209 points during the 2007-08 regular season. And that’s with missing 49 games between them.
The year before, the Ducks were the beneficiaries of 206 points from six of their most- used blueliners (Scott Niedermayer, Chris Pronger, Francois Beauchemin, Sean O’Donnell, Joe DiPenta and Kent Huskins).
The Senators stack up like peanuts to coconuts by comparison.
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Points for defencemen can be incredibly misleading because in most cases, the vast majority of points come on the power play. It’s cool to get points from your defence on the power play, but if you have a good power play anyways, is it really necessary? What’s the difference?
Get players that give you an effective power play, not defencemen who score a bunch of points.
Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 08/03/08 at 04:34 AM ET