Over the last three seasons, Torey Krug leads all NHL defensemen in Offensive Zone Start%...and it’s not even close:

Torey Krug: 66.9%
Tyson Barrie: 60.8%
Vince Dunn: 59.5%
Colin Miller: 59.0%

Pietrangelo is 78th at 49.7%.

Not great. #STLBlues
2/3 of our starting left-side in the top three...

2/3 of our starting right-side in the top 22 (Bortz: 55.0%, Faulk; 54.3%)

Krug is 6.1% ahead of Barrie. Players 2-19 on the list have a difference of 5.8%....

That’s A LOT of protected minutes on our backend.
Who’s gonna start in the D-zone with a late lead? Scandella-Parayko? What about after them? What if Parayko gets hurt? We’re screwed.

Call me a bitch all you want, I get it. You want positivity. I tried. But this right here doesn’t give me any confidence.
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