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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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You can make all the excuses about why he went you want, but "horrible defensive defencemen" do not get selected to play for Canada at the Olympics. Full stop.
Subban is a great offensive defencemen and a decent defensive one. Not at the top end yet, but we're not talking about Justin Schultz or Dion Phaneuf here.