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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Jeff Petry is the 5th best dman in the NHL and Ryan Suter is the 201st best dman
Peter Harrold is better than Shea Weber
The thing I am worried about is how good will the Oilers defence be this year
Petry - 5th best in the NHL
Fayne - 28th best in the NHL
Marincin - 41st best in the NHL
Nikitin - 59th best in the NHL
When you have 4 dmen in the top 60 in the entire NHL you are stacked. That is a sick top 4 to be able to roll out against anyone.
Looking at the top 100 on that list it seems like there are some good players and some awful players. I do not think there is a single hockey person who would put any of those Oiler dmen in the top 60 dmen in the league.
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Except this stat doesn't say someone is the best Dman, just that they have the best possession numbers which is a good thing but far from the only thing.
There's also an explanation for the Oiler D....they are so bad at D that their opponents only need one shot and so bad at O that they need so many shots to score - voila awesome Corsi