Was Kevin Lowe better than any of the following defensemen?
Gary Suter
Doug Wilson
Gonchar
Kevin Hatcher
Randy Carlyle
James Patrick
Hamrlik
Desjardins
McCrimmon
Glen Wesley
Timonen
Duchesne
Schneider
Foote
Numminen
Maybe he has a case against a few of them, but I don't think it would be hard to come up with 10-20 d-men who will never get a sniff at the hall who were better players...
Lowe is 97th all time pts among defensemen (despite a decade on the Oilers juggernaut in the higest scoring era)
26th in games played. Still 2 less than 2x stanley cup champion Craig Ludwig (can't say that name has crossed my mind since I had hockey cards).
Jay Bouwmeester has a nearly identical career stat line in a very different era.
Hall of Lame.
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