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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
Hey, reading a lot of emotion on this thread and its understandable. It feels a lot better to see Phaneuf as a plug after he was given away for next to nothing. The fact is that he was a very entertaining player for the Flames and it took the heart out of the team when he was let go.
If you forget about that and just look at Phaneuf and watch him play today he is certainly a number 1D, not in the top 10 of number 1s but i don't think you can find 20 better then him.
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Off the top of my head:
Chara
Karlsson
Keith
AP
Weber
Suter
Doughty
Subban
Butler
Edler
Letang
OEL
Bouwmeester
JMFJ
Seabrook
Staal
Some of those are debatable. In the area of 20 is about right I would say. Tough to say though - the problem is you have to pay him like a #1 but if he is your #1 - you probably aren't going to win in the playoffs.
Tough player to gauge value on.