Off the Charts: The Radim Simek experience

Radim Simek has been impressive defensively so farAs of this writing, we are 11 games into the Radim Simek experience. Maybe more importantly, we are 11 games into the Simek-playing-with-Brent Burns era. The question of who will be the team’s “Wookie Whisperer” has long rested ever so patiently on the tips of San Jose Sharks fans’ tongues ever since Paul Martin hung up his skates.

The Simek experience has so far been a success, not only for the newly anointed Beast Tamer pair’s on-ice contribution, but also for how they’ve potentially enabled coach Pete DeBoer to reimagine the way he deploys Marc-Edouard Vlasic. Though 11 games of 5-on-5 playing time is still a small sample size, it’s enough…