On the road, you can play them straight up defensively.
"I think as a whole we played quite well defensively."
"We'll get back to what brought us here, which is playing more solid defensively."
I've always said that when we play well defensively, it helps us at the other end.
Every Yankee seemed to play well defensively in the series.
"Our game is to play tight defensively and it wasn't there tonight."
They're playing much better defensively than at any point I played them.
They can point out the positive: that the team is playing well defensively, giving up only five goals in its last two games.
In fact, this may have been the best game we played defensively.
Now we've decided we had to play well defensively and we're doing the job.