No he’s an average defensive player. Selke votes you know are pretty worthless. It’s usually given now as some reward to a player who got a bunch of points that won’t qualify for major awards. If it was a pure defensive award than getting 60 points wouldn’t be a prerequisite to getting the award. This is not the 80s where actual players with no offensive stats would win the award. Anyway you said shutdown. 51 DFR just shows that not to be true at all. I feel quite confident that Backlund and Lindholm are both better defensive players than him. What he at least not is is a tire fire on defense but no one should expect him to just shut down McDavid. He’s not going to do that anymore than Backlund or Lindholm did. He’s a good all around player (offense better than defense) with some edge in his game. We need that more than an all PP/offense guy like Miller so I’d rather have Kadri.
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