TheDevilMadeMe
Registered User
Not saying that he is better. I was talking in terms of the Norris trophy because people only look at stats including +/-. Rafalski is not weak defensively, he is not amazing but I would say better than Kronwall. Stuart is very solid defensively. Kronwall can throw big hits, but he is out of position a lot.
I have criticized the reliance on stats in Norris voting quite a bit myself, but there there are very few writers so reliant on stats that they would actually vote Rafalski ahead of Lidstrom.