northwest dave wrote: I throw a little caution out there. The defense was tops in PK this year. The offense from the dline sucked. The trick will be to add an offensive-minded dman, while maintaining the high level of defense. But if you start throwing out players that make the PK tops, that will be the next hole to fix.
It should be an interesting summer for JD and Armstrong.
Two things,
#1 - That was mainly because we have the BEST penalty killing forwards in the league
#2 - Mike Weaver was huge killing penalties down the stretch. When we did have mental breakdowns on the PK it was nearly always #5 (that's why I could care less about his annual injury excuse).
As for offensive point production form the defense, I'd look again. EJ had a huge year, Brewer quietly netted 7 and Carlo did a good job as well. What they really struggled with was the outlet pass and the funny part was that it was your two highest paid defensmen were the biggest culprits.