[Da_Chief]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Brodie's in a category of his own in denying shooting opportunities in the crease. Not a 3rd pairing defenceman.

From this story: http://www.tsn.ca/you-don-t-have-to-...ceman-1.358467

Also: Yikes Wideman.

This whole discussion is useless. We will see Gio, Brodie, Hamilton avg around 23-25 minutes, Russell and Wideman will get around 19 mins and whoever plays as the 6th dman get the rest. Hartley has already said this isn't peewee hockey where we to evenly distribute the time, the best guys will play a lot.

Now on to this ridiculous chart.

How are these even measured? I will take several guys in that top right hand corner and easily throw away several guys from bottom left.

Guys in the top right that are top defenders: Beachumin, Klein, Carlson, Barrie, DeKeyser, Fowler, Lindholm, Seabrook, Scandella, Hamhuis, Jones, McDonagh, Stone, Kronwall, Yandle, Pietrangelo, Faulk.

Guys in the bottom left that blow: Lovejoy, Fayne, Benn, Demers, Schultz, Boyle, Cole, Ellis, Hainsey, Benoit, Gardiner, Smith, Green.

That's like 50% from each group. No one should pay attention to whatever garbage measurement was used to create this chart.