[PeteMoss]

Not regarding last night's games but this Phaneuf article was interesting: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...&click=dlvr.it

What’s important to note about Phaneuf’s career year in Calgary isn’t necessarily the production. What was starkly different was actually the fact he wasn’t relied on to be all things in all situations.

He split time playing with Anders Eriksson and Adrian Aucoin on a type of sheltered, offence-first second unit while stay-at-homers Robyn Regehr and Cory Sarich drew the defensive zone faceoffs and first-line assignments.

They didn’t trust Phaneuf to do the heavy lifting. And it makes you wonder how much he’s been miscast in Toronto.

Under Leafs coach Randy Carlyle, Phaneuf starts a higher percentage of his shifts in the defensive zone than any defenceman in the NHL. He faces a higher quality of competition than any other defenceman, including getting pummelled by David Backes’s big line in Tuesday’s loss.

He is, in short, in the Chris Pronger role without being Chris Pronger, and if you look at the over all results, they’re not always pretty.

Toronto, a team outshot by an extreme 8.3 shots per game, has been outshot 1039-811 with Phaneuf on the ice this season – or nearly 40 per cent of that ugly shot differential.

(Perhaps unsurprisingly, he’s also last in the league in penalty differential, with 26 more minors taken than he has drawn.)