Topics in this edition of the PHR Mailbag include San Jose’s rebuild, speculating about teams that could make a goalie move, and more. If your question doesn’t appear here, check back in last weekend’s column .
Zakis: How does the Wild figure out 5-on-5 scoring?
A lot of it is just going to be patience. They’ve been hovering around a shooting percentage of five at full strength this season. That’s bound to improve on its own as even bad teams are closer to seven at the end of a year.
There are a couple of ways to improve scoring at five-on-five and neither of them are easy. The first is upgrading their playmaking, especially down the middle. GM Bill Guerin has been trying to do that for years without much success. (He’s hardly the only one who has struggled in this regard eit

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