Adams: we have an elite D corps

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3 hours ago, dudacek said:

In 2006, Hank Tallinder had 43 hits, Teppo Numminen had 10.

The following year Teppo had 37 and Hank 26 (in 47 games)

Nick Lidstrom routinely put up 40-something hits a year.

Teams need physical defencemen, but idea you need to be physical to play good defence is utter fallacy.

Owen Power doesn’t need to punish anybody, he needs to use that reach, those feet and that vision to kill plays.

Hits and physicality are not the same thing.  They guys you mentioned knew how to muscle someone out of the crease or get their bodies in people’s way.  Power Ole’s people as they skate by and has no idea how to move someone out of the crease.