It seems that the habs organization as a whole, beginning this past offseason, has really put an emphasis on acquiring puck moving defensemen. At the NHL level the team added Brisebois and Hamrlik, both move the puck efficiently. Through last years draft the team acquired McDonaugh, Subban, and Weber, and in 2006 the team drafted Fischer and Carle. In fact, this is probably the area where we have the most depth in the entire organization (overtaking our previous strength in depth of small, skilled, offensive forwards). So far, the emphasis seems to be paying off at the NHL level as our transitional defense and breakout passing is far superior to last year.
My question is this:
Is this a league wide shift? Are other teams keying in on young puck moving D-men as well? Or are other teams shifting their focus in a different direction (ie - 2-way centres for example), believing that position to be the most important moving forward in the new NHL?
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1 Retrsbecca // Mar 15, 2008 at 12:52 am
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