Our end-of-season report cards continue today with our assessment of the defense and goaltending.
We knew going into this season that it was going to be a pretty rough year on defense, with a lot of uncertainty in net. Injuries to Thomas Chabot and to many, many goaltenders only added to the uncertainty, but they did allow for a few young players to step in and impress us.
As Trevor explained in yesterday’s piece on the forwards, these grades are for the whole season, not just the second half. You can compare them to the midseason grades to see which players improved their grades in the second half and which didn’t, though.