Kris Knoblauch’s best quality. His calm is impressive. His tactics have often been on the mark. But the thing I keep coming back to is his great patience, how he never throws players under the bus in public, invariably has their back, and is willing to stick with a player even as he’s struggling mightily. Article content

That quality is on display today as Knoblauch is sticking with rookie d-man Alec Regula, even as Regula had such a rough game against Carolina, a dz-turnover kicking off the sequence of pain on one goal against and him getting flat-out beat on a bull rush to the net the major contributor to a second goal against. Article content Article content

But at Monday morning’s skate at least, Knoblauch had Regula back with his partner Brett Kulak on the third pairing.

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