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Originally Posted by New Era
How so? Subban is a great offensive defenseman but a horrible defensive defenseman. He's very much like Letang in Pittsburgh. He'll win you some games, but he'll lose you just as many. Let's put it to you this way. Who would you want on your team? Paul Coffey or Al MacInnis? I'll pass on Coffey and take MacInnis. Same thing goes with Subban. I'll take quite a few defenders over Subban, especially at $9 million a season. That's crazy money for a player like that.
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Big Al was pretty awful defensively for most of his time in Calgary, there was not much difference between him and Coffey for most of those years defensively. Funny thing about Big Al, he became a better defensive dman over the years, really coming into his own in his late 20's and 30's. I guess what I am saying is Big Al was godawful defensively until he was around PK's age and then became better defensively. You want to see something funny, watch Big Al skate in his first 3 years in the league.