A Comparison Of Our Blueline

[duul]

Bored, so I am going to compile every teams NHL blueline into this thread for easier comparison between ours and theirs.

Jesus, some teams make it really hard to figure out their pairings. Same as last thread, 10 teams at a time.

Here is our blueline going into tonight to compare:

Nurse-Sekera,
Davidson-Klefbom,
Ference-Gryba



Anaheim

Lindholm-Bieksa
Fowler-Holzer
Stoner-Vatanen

Arizona

OEL-Stone
Dahlbeck-Michalek
Grossmann-Elliott
Murphy

Boston

Chara-Seidenberg
Krug-McQuaid
Morrow-Trotman

Buffalo

Gorges-Bogosian
McCabe-Ristolainen
Weber-Franson
Pysyk

Calgary

Giordano-Wideman
Russell-Brodie
Smid-Hamilton
Engelland

Carolina

Hainsey-Faulk
Hanifin-Murphy
Liles-Jordan

Chicago

Keith-Seabrook
Hjalmarsson-Van Riemsdyk
Svedberg-Rundblad
Daley

Colorado

Beauchemin-Johnson
Stuart-Barrie
Zadorov-Guenin
Holden-Gormley

Columbus

Johnson-Savard
Murray-Goloubef
Prout-Tyutin

Dallas

Goligoski-Klingberg
Oduya-Demers
Jokipakka-Benn

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[duul]

Detroit

Kronwall-Ericsson
Dekeyser-Marchenko
Kindl-Smith

Florida

Campbell-Ekblad
Kulikov-Petrovic
Mitchell-Gudbranson

Los Angeles

McNabb - Doughty
Muzzin - Martinez
Ehrhoff - McBain

Minnesota

Suter - Spurgeon
Brodin - Dumba
Scandella - Folin

Montreal

Markov-Subban
Emelin-Petry
Bealieu-Gilbert

Nashville

Josi-Weber
Jackman-Jones
Ekholm-Ellis

New Jersey

Greene-Larsson
Moore-Severson
Schlemko-Gelinas

New York Islanders

Leddy-Boychuk
De Haan-Hamonic
Lidstrom-Zidlicky

New York Rangers

McDonagh-Klein
Yandle-Girardi
Staal-Boyle

Ottawa

Methot-Karlsson
Wiercioch-Ceci
Cowen-Borowiecki

 

[duul]

Philadelphia

Schultz-Streit
DelZotto-Gudas
Medvedev-Schenn

Pittsburgh

Cole-Letang
Scuderi-Lovejoy
Dumoulin-Maatta

San Jose

Vlasic-Braun
Martin-Burns
Dillon-Tennysen

St. Louis

Bouwmeester-Pietrangelo
Gunnarsson-Shattenkirk
Edmundson-Parayko

Tampa Bay

Hedman-Stralman
Carle-Garrison
Coburn-Sustr

Toronto

Phaneuf-Gardiner
Reilly-Polak
Hunwick-Harrington

Vancouver

Edler - Tanev
Hamhuis - Weber
Hutton - Sbisa

Washington

Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Orlov-Chorney

Winnipeg

Enstrom-Byfuglien
Chiarot-Myers
Stuart-Trouba

 

[duul]

Looking through the D, I would think the only time on a similar level to us is Philadelphia. Every other team has at least one actual top pairing defenceman. Most have two, some have three.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Looking through the D, I would think the only time on a similar level to us is Philadelphia. Every other team has at least one actual top pairing defenceman. Most have two, some have three.

True, but Toronto and Pittsburgh are also pretty terrible.

Inopportune time to make this thread with two regulars out and one being sat to send a message.

 

[Aerrol]

Looking through the D, I would think the only time on a similar level to us is Philadelphia. Every other team has at least one actual top pairing defenceman. Most have two, some have three.

True, but Toronto and Pittsburgh are also pretty terrible.

Inopportune time to make this thread with two regulars out and one being sat to send a message.

Eh, Letang is great and Maatta was playing pre-surgery at a level way higher than any of our players. Toronto definitely gives us a run for our money, but I still like Rielly more than all of our D... Columbus' D looks pretty bad too, and I'm not super enamored with Dallas despite the upgrades.

That said, I still put what we're icing tonight as dead last...by far.

 

[oXo Cube]

Did you not make pretty much this exact thread like 2 weeks ago already?

 

[duul]

True, but Toronto and Pittsburgh are also pretty terrible.

Inopportune time to make this thread with two regulars out and one being sat to send a message.

See, our "regulars" are 3rd pairing guys or in the minors on most teams.

NYI couldn't even find a place for Reinhart on their team and their top pairing is Leddy-Boychuk.

Schultz is a PP specialist on any playoff team in the league but he plays the most minutes on our team.

Toronto has Phaneuf, Rielly, and Gardiner, who are all better than each of our guys.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Eh, Letang is great and Maatta was playing pre-surgery at a level way higher than any of our players. Toronto definitely gives us a run for our money, but I still like Rielly more than all of our D... Columbus' D looks pretty bad too, and I'm not super enamored with Dallas despite the upgrades.

That said, I still put what we're icing tonight as dead last...by far.

Oh absolutely, but take two supposedly top four defencemen and a steady #5 out of anyone's lineup and they'll look like hot garbage.

Sekera-Schultz
Klefbom-Nurse
Reinhart-Fayne/Gryba

Doesn't look so bad, suddenly. Definitely still bottom ten but we all knew this D core was a work in progress.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

See, our "regulars" are 3rd pairing guys or in the minors on most teams.

NYI couldn't even find a place for Reinhart on their team and their top pairing is Leddy-Boychuk.

Schultz is a PP specialist on any playoff team in the league but he plays the most minutes on our team.

Toronto has Phaneuf, Rielly, and Gardiner, who are all better than each of our guys.

Bolded - nope. Gardiner? Really?

Reinhart had made the Islanders before they added two top 4 defencemen over his head. That's not his fault, he's 21 years old.

What point are you trying to make here? Our defence sucks? That's a fairly widely known fact.

 

[duul]

Bolded - nope. Gardiner? Really?

Reinhart had made the Islanders before they added two top 4 defencemen over his head. That's not his fault, he's 21 years old.

What point are you trying to make here? Our defence sucks? That's a fairly widely known fact.

I'm just posting the D lineups of each team in the NHL so we can evaluate and compare them.

Reinhart was outplayed by two AHL defencemen who took spots in their lineup during injuries. He came in and got embarrassed by the Caps and then sent right back down.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

I'm just posting the D lineups of each team in the NHL so we can evaluate and compare them.

Reinhart was outplayed by two AHL defencemen who took spots in their lineup during injuries. He came in and got embarrassed by the Caps and then sent right back down.

21 year old Rookie D not ready to face Ovechkin and Backstrom in his first ever NHL playoff game after only 9 career regular season games. More at 11.

 

[McDoused]

We are still waiting on Klefbom, Nurse and Reinhart to develop. They are all highly touted first round prospects for a reason.

 

[McHaNugYakEbNurDra]

Looking through the D, I would think the only time on a similar level to us is Philadelphia. Every other team has at least one actual top pairing defenceman. Most have two, some have three.

I'd be pleased if you could go back and bold who those 1,2,3 top pairing defencemen are. It seems that there is a lot of variance between what people define as a top pairing defenceman to me.

Not saying that I necessarily disagree with your statement, but identifying the top pairing guys always gives me grief as I'm not sure we all agree what the definition of top pairing is.

 

[duul]

I'd be pleased if you could go back and bold who those 1,2,3 top pairing defencemen are. It seems that there is a lot of variance between what people define as a top pairing defenceman to me.

Not saying that I necessarily disagree with your statement, but identifying the top pairing guys always gives me grief as I'm not sure we all agree what the definition of top pairing is.

All right. I will go through and give my own ratings. I will bold them.

 

[duul]

So I bolded the players who I feel can be considered 1st pairing guys on good teams. Playoff teams or borderline teams.

 

[Philly85*]

lol @ bolding Yandle. He's a pylon. Injuries and all, Staal is still second best on that D corps.

 

[ecemleafs]

lol @ bolding Yandle. He's a pylon. Injuries and all, Staal is still second best on that D corps.

not even close. yandle has been far better than staal since yandle moved to the rangers.