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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
With all the talk about Karlsson in the other thread, last night was a clinic in how to play defense by Weber. If you have it on PVR, watch it again focusing on him. His ability to keep the other team to the outside and away from the high danger areas is quite impressive. His ability to impose his will physically is something that is becoming more and more rare these days.
On the flip side of that, watching Bennett battle with him, and continually take Weber on and go after him, was absolutely outstanding. Most forwards just turn away from his physical pressure, but 19yearoldSamBennett just kept going after him and hitting him again. Weber isn't used to that from most guys and was actually getting pissed off.
It was a fun battle to watch.
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I agree with all of the above. However is there a guy in the league that gets away with more cross checks/stick infractions than Weber? The guy is a beast no doubt, but he looks like a friggin lumberjack out there. He has the size and strength to be effective without that, but i feel he takes the stick work a bit far. It is straight conjecture but i feel that almost any other dman would be called on a lot of those plays.