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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yandle is an offensive defenseman. The moment he loses a step, he's an anchor.
Giordano has very low mileage for a 32 year old. And he is in freakish shape.
Giordano is a complete defenseman and will still be an excellent defenseman when his offensive numbers start to slide. The same simply cannot be said about Yandle.
Trying to compare Giordano and Yandle is like comparing Kopitar to Spezza. THey might put up similar numbers, but they are not similar players. Without the points, Kopitar is still a great player. Spezza, not so much.
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First of all I am and have been a big Gio fan for a long time.
Gio was NOT considered an excellent d-man before his offensive numbers took off in the Hartley era.
The biggest argument from the pro-Bouwmeester crowd was that the Flames had no other d-man capable of playing on the top pairing against the other teams top line. That was when Gio was 29 years old.
The rest of the "experts" do not think he is near as good as he is held on CP.
In the recent (2016) Norris voting where Gio played 82 games and had his career year scoring he had exactly 1 vote in the Norris as a top 5 d-man in the league. Gio was #2 in Goal scoring as a d-man and #6 in points. Norris voters usually have a bias towards offensive d-men... they sure didn't have a bias for Gio.
By low mileage are you referring to his lack of playoff games? I do not consider missing 20 games a year due to injury to be a sign of low mileage.
Gio is a great defenseman ... It will be extremely hard for him to perform to the level that he is now getting paid