Apparently, I also signed up to write Esa Lindell’s player grade last year, which I didn’t remember. In it, I gave a rather scathing report about his usage and urged everyone to vote poorly for him. This is perhaps why I remember last year as a very frustrating experiment with John Klingberg, his primary partner over the last two seasons.
Today I come to you, hat in hands, to eat some crow.
Now, part of Lindell’s success this season has to do with the way that Ken Hitchcock’s defense-heavy system made all of the defense better.