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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Good lord. Bouw is much better offensively this year, but did everyone not see him fail to clear Roussel on Dallas's first? His D game is still buttery soft. The offensive improvement makes up for a lot but his D game still has the same lapses. He is still at the top of the entire league in team GA when on the ice.
Better offensively, same defensively. Overall therefore better, but let's not engrave the Norris
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This is somewhat true, he does look better defensively although still not as good as he could be on the backend. Wideman I still think has been our best overall D-man but Bouw is really starting to take over. Not to mention he really can take over games with his skill, since the Oilers game he's been pretty solid. I love the fact that we can even have the debate about who's the best D-man on this team, much better than arguing over who's the worst.
Although Wideman has looked awesome with that big shot and is the best PP QB we've had since.....wow, since who? Bouw is starting to take over and if he keeps skating around the ice like has been doing, then this guy can be pretty special. Can't blame CP for getting excited about this.
Remember when Irving shut down the nucks last season 3-1 at GM Place, ending our Drought against the nucks. Well I found the boxscore of that game:
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/boxscore?gid=2011122322
I remember after that game I was telling everyone how Bouw had a "lidstrom-like" performance, just played a perfect game and was up against the Sedins all night. It was his defensive game that really stood out, he just played very smart positional hockey. I know he can be the man like that, when you're that good of a skater at that size you're bound to figure it out eventually. Here's hoping Jay-Bo has!