The Offense has improved/ awoken, but how good is our Defense.
According to the data from Evolving Hockey, we have three of the top 30 in the league.
When looking at the impact on Expected Goals Against (xGA) this chart shows the total defensive impact on both 5 v 5 and Penalty Kill. (remember it's defense, so negative #s are good).
Theodore is #6
Schmidt is #21
Miller is # 28
As not everyone contributes on the PK so we can remove them and believe it or not, we still have three on the list.
Schmidt is #10
Miller is #16
Holden is # 26
This data was taken from an article about TBLs Erik Cernak which can be found here.
Posted Mar 20, 2019, 7:17 PM UTC
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The question is if Subban is the way forward in net, Flower is 34 (turning 35 i think?) so thats really up there in age, i dont doubt he could play until maybe 37, but after that who knows.
Roberto Luongo is still playing at 39 (and was good before this season) and King Henrik is 37 and still playing. Its so uncommon to see goalies playing longer and fleury has shown no slow down so far
I agree but its still a good idea to get a goalie that we can get ready for when he retires. It's probably something we'll have figured out when we get through more drafts though.