The term "Achilles' heel" will be familiar to readers; it has been used repeatedly over the years because the image it conjures is so irresistible. The idea of a virtually invincible warrior with a tiny flaw—a flaw that ultimately dooms him—is both powerful and easy to understand.
Real life, of course, isn't quite as simple as mythology. Even the best of NHL teams aren't perfect save for one tiny flaw; most teams have a mixture of strengths and weaknesses, with the best teams having more of the former and fewer of the latter.
For our purposes, we're trying to identify a flaw, either fatal or potentially so, with each NHL roster. Bad teams will have many of them; we're looking for an overriding factor. Good teams will have fewer problems, and the ones they have will be less serious, so in these cases we're looking for something that could potentially undo the club over a seven-game playoff series.
In each instance, we chose a single statistic that captures the problem in a nutshell and then went into more detail on the defect. Read on to see what we have to say about your team.
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