from Nate Brown of Detroit Hockey Now,
Truth: Steve Yzerman’s Right in Drafting Defensemen...
It’s been putrid, there is no way around it. But Blashill isn’t totally at fault here. The defense, outside of Moritz Seider, has struggled mightily. And instead of playing the tight system Blashill did last year, he’s allowed to things to open up more which to no one’s surprise, has led to a deluge of goals from the wrong team.
It’s been a problem for over a decade and this year, in spite of some movement forward, has revealed some massive warts.