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Old 07-10-2020, 09:24 AM   #1
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Default The Athletic: Best puck moving defensemen

https://theathletic.com/1892364/2020...0the%20numbers

Apologies if this has already been posted but I thought this would make for a good discussion.

Some of us probably already knew this but Rasmus Andersson is among the 10 best D men in the league at moving the puck ie: zone exits and entries.

The article sifted through four different stats and took only the guys who fell in the top whatever % of each of them and Rasmus made the cut. Other names include Josi, McAvoy, Slavin, Karlsson, and Girard.

Another interesting note is the rest of the Flames top 4 all made the "barely missed the cut" list in the order of Hanifin, Giordano and Brodie. So pretty cool that although the points aren't exactly there right now, our young guys have some elite qualities to their games.

I hope we see Hanifin and Andersson remain together and given more important assignments next season. I think the sky is the limit for that pair and we should see what they can do
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