"I pride myself on defense and felt that we were strong as a team defensively," Mattingly said, in a prepared statement.

The team was strong defensively.

The Jets have a similar defensively strong team.

Dumars eventually formed a team similar to his own: a group of players who played a hard-nosed, defensively strong, fundamentally sound, team-oriented style of play.

Despite this, it is not a defensively strong castle, having neither a strong keep nor a concentric layout.

He remained strong defensively; however, he struggled on offense, and the Mets decided not to resign him.

The second round was also closely contested, in part as this Canadian squad was strong defensively but had limited ability to score goals.

They have a lot of firepower and they are strong defensively.

"They're strong defensively, can struggle offensively and have solid goaltending that becomes the big question mark in the playoffs."

"I think it's important that we be strong defensively at that position," McIlvaine said.