SSDM are important, they tend to come from varying origins and tend to improve at position with experience The best ones love playing it and are lead players on their teams. We had a mix of offensive and defensive players playing that position last year . Dearth, Hutchings, Oladuoye, Schwasnick , Partamian from O end then Helmer and Murphy from the D end. All possessed enough size, speed, strength, footwork as well as passable sticks. Dearth for one emerged as valuable ssdm after moving from OM and the unit progressed with season passage as rotation got tighter. The shotclock will require work in fall on subbing quickly to get our dm's on field . Two way mids and middy depth become more valuable if pace and transition pick up. Cuse seems positioned, all dm's return with another year of experience under belts and middy depth could afford running three decent lines whenever a fast pace game requires fresh legs.