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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Now this is false. Many teams have had success with an offensive D man that is not good in his own end. Why do you think Letang has never made team Canada for the Olympics? He is one dimensional. Most years his +/- is not that great, especially for a guy logging as many minutes as he does on the most stacked team in the NHL. This year he is +2, Schultz is +26. Schultz also has 49 points and while he has played more games that is still top tier numbers playing with 2nd pairing ice time. It is also easy to see if you watch a lot of Penguin games which I do because I always load up on them for pool reasons. Letang is really not good in his own end. He might be better than Schultz offensively but the gap is not that wide and Schultz is much more solid in his own end.
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Jeff Schultz once led the league in +/- on a stacked Capitals team.
Dennis Wideman had 50 points two years ago.
Neither are better players than a healthy Kris Letang.
Neither is Justin Schultz. Woe to whomever gives that dude $5M+ on July 1.