At the beginning of last season, people predicting the Coyotes as a playoff team cited Alex Goligoski as one of the main reasons why.
The offensively-capable defenseman was coming off one of his career-best seasons with Dallas, where he collected 37 points and posted an eye-catching +21 plus/minus.
Fast forward to the end of the 2017 season, and many people are blaming the veteran blue liner as one of the chief reasons for the team’s third-bottom finish in the Western Conference.
A glance at Goligoski’s stat line, however, paints a different picture.