The guy whose team is worse with him on the ice over the past 3 seasons?
See, you're being deliberately ignorant. At least, I
think you know better.
Doughty is the one eating all the hard minutes/assignments so other guys like Walker and Roy can play well. He's getting Vlasic's deployment, but with Joakim Ryan as a partner. He hasn't been himself for sure, but you put anyone else in his role and they get utterly
crushed. I'll take it you're just ignoring my example of the 2018 playoffs from earlier, so reposting it here: when he was suspended in G2 against VGK, his replacements were a 25% and 33% CF when Drew was over 50% for the series against the best line in the league. VGK fans despise him and mock him for his mouth, but they'll be the first to tell you he's a difference maker too. And I know you know it too.
Here's the last thing I'll say about it because it's very clear from this thread how hard it is for many EK fans to admit Doughty is actually good too. Even early in his career people pointed out how Drew was a guy who outplayed his stats. They rarely flattered him. He's almost never been an awesome d-man on paper and it was always said you literally just have to watch him. That's why it's frustrating that after all this time it's still hard to quantify what he's brought to the table throughout his career. Hell I remember a game vs. the Ducks when he was in the thick of the Norris race and his final statline was just two giveaways and even and how many of the usual suspects popped in to mock him without realizing those two giveaways were goals he literally saved on the goalline and dumped out of trouble without icing. All the stuff about "there's no way defense can make up for a gap in offense" when he's out there shaving goals against and transitioning the puck out of trouble. People don't
want to like him. That's it. The goalposts always move. People were loving CF% until they realized Doughty's historic shot attempt differentials, for example.
But whether his detractors like it or not, Doughty is going down alongside EK and Keith as the best of the bunch for what, an 8-10 year period? And I don't know why that irks that venn diagram so much. They're all phenomenal players and likely alltimers unless they just totally fall off the map now. Must be nice to be a Keith fan, he never gets attacked!