It floors me that people talk about Dougie's size as a major asset. He doesn't use his size. He's a great skater but tends to be lazy and let players get past him despite his speed and size and then take bad penalties because of it.
Yes, he scores a good amount of goals for a defenseman and he has even bigger offensive upside than he's shown. God knows he should have been on the powerplay all season. He's a valuable player but without a really solid partner you couldn't put him on the top pairing. It's debatable if he can even be considered top pairing defensively (out there being matched with other team's top lines even strength and on PK) on the Flames because GG tends to prefer Brodie and Hamonic in those situations. Of course he may well be misguided in that preference.
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