You know perfectly well that the Norris is always given to one of the top scoring defencemen.
Analytics had Tanev pegged as the best defensive defenceman in the NHL for a while. So, yeah, he definitely made Kylington much better. He's pretty much done that with every partner he had.
Are you sure an article in The Hockey Writers by ‘aspiring sportswriter’ Marko Zlomislic, which doesn't even rank the top defence pairings (Tanev-Kylington is the second one listed, but there are no numeric rankings) is the hill you want to die on?
The article listed Grzelcyk-MacAvoy first and Toews-Makar third, for heaven's sake.
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