HFBoards Top 32 Defensemen - #9

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Rank	Player	Votes	Team	GP	G	A	P
1	Cale Makar	85/111 (77%)	Colorado Avalanche	77	28	58	86
2	Victor Hedman	196/269 (73%)	Tampa Bay Lightning	82	20	65	85
3	Roman Josi	121/197 (61%)	Nashville Predators	80	23	73	96
4	Adam Fox	106/175 (61%)	New York Rangers	78	11	63	74
5	Charlie McAvoy	142/224 (63%)	Boston Bruins	78	10	46	56
6	Miro Heiskanen	79/212 (37%)	Dallas Stars	70	5	31	36
7	Aaron Ekblad	62/156 (40%)	Florida Panthers	61	15	42	57
8	Jaccob Slavin	89/160 (56%)	Carolina Hurricanes	79	4	38	42
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To add:
Mackenzie Weegar
Jonas Brodin
Jared Spurgeon
Alex Pietrangelo
Zach Werenski
Dougie Hamilton
John Klingberg
Jakob Chychrun
Brent Burns
Erik Karlsson
Adam Pelech
Noah Dobson

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[LeafsNation149]

For next season? I think Rielly is the best of the bunch. Obvious bias though.

Hughes is extremely overrated by Canucks fans, this is Pettersson 2.0

 

[Connor McConnor]

Quinn Hughes is really f***ing good. It’s him here. I don’t get the criticism about his defensive game. Is he perfect? No but his transition defense is elite and overall he’s above average defensively. His QOC was also at a respectable level last season, he wasn’t as sheltered like he has been in years past.

Pretty good list so far, I think Heiskanen is a bit high but other than that can’t really complain about anything.

His QoC was 11% which was like the lowest on the team. Where are you getting your numbers from?

 

[Paul4587]

His QoC was 11% which was like the lowest on the team. Where are you getting your numbers from?

PuckIQ which has him facing the third highest percentage of elite competition of all Canucks regulars behind OEL and Myers.

 

[Blueston]

Voted for Seider. Add Faulk.

 

[nowhereman]

I'm starting to think Hughes is actually underrated on this site, since many on here (including some Canucks fans) can't let go of the narrative from his sophomore season. Some of the opinions in this thread range from off-the-mark to absolute nonsense.

 

[canuckking1]

Hughes had a lot of assists QBing a PP that was closer to 20th in the league than to 1st.

He scored ZERO goals for that power play. A lot of touches and points on PP that while 9th OA, was in the fat middle of power plays within a couple of percent of each other.

Is getting a lot of touches on an average power play compelling to folks?

At even strength he had fewer points than guys like Theodore, Forsling, Skjei or Faulk.

Defensively he is a good puckmover with some size limitations.

I dunno. I would expect more out of a top 10 defenseman.

Using names like Faulk, Skeji and Theodore as means to put down Hughes when all 3 finished top 10 in ES scoring among D seems a bit weird. You're making it sound like his ES scoring was abysmal when he tied for 14th in the league on one of the weaker even-strength teams.

 

[DearDiary]

Imagine having a Dman playing sheltered minutes as a top 10 defenseman

 

[Buck Naked]

Imagine having a Dman playing sheltered minutes as a top 10 defenseman

Number one, two, and three on the list above all are third on their respective team in terms of QoC% against elite competition.

 

[Pavels Dog]

I'm starting to think Hughes is actually underrated on this site, since many on here (including some Canucks fans) can't let go of the narrative from his sophomore season. Some of the opinions in this thread range from off-the-mark to absolute nonsense.

Looks like he's gonna be 9th here, how is that underrated?

- 11th by NHL.com
- Outside the top 10 by CBSSports
- 13th in Norris voting
- 16th in EA Sports NHL ratings

Can you find any rankings where he comes in higher than 9th?

 

[nowhereman]

Looks like he's gonna be 9th here, how is that underrated?

- 11th by NHL.com
- Outside the top 10 by CBSSports
- 13th in Norris voting
- 16th in EA Sports NHL ratings

Can you find any rankings where he comes in higher than 9th?

Oh, I don't think he should be higher. I just don't subscribe to the tired narrative that I see here all the time that he can't play defense, needs to be significantly sheltered or is somehow worse than Seth Jones.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Hughes. I think he’ll move up a few spots next year as the tired narrative of him being poor defensively a couple of years ago slides further into the rear view mirror. Youngest guy chosen so far as well. Just turns 23 in a month.
Be interesting to see how he does moving to the right side and playing with a legitimate top 4 guy in OEL, instead of Luke Schenn.