Oh boy, here we go again.
Do you guys remember when we were doing this kind of shit all the time with Pens fans a few years ago? Like... I don't remember if Maata actually made the list before his unfortunate situation but... Dumoulin and John Marino come to mind immediately and I think I'm still forgetting one. Remember how Marino was surely going to "be a fixture in the league for years" with potential that made him sound like what Adam Fox actually is, how they listened to absolutely nobody, and then shortly enough flipped the script when he was traded to Jersey and went "yeah he works but he's not all that"?
Defensemen in this league win their respect by attrition, it takes a lot of fans and teams trying to find new ways to tear somebody down before we can all say "okay, yeah, he's a stud" and you're not going to break through with metrics in a sample size we've seen before.
Three years of this and we're there. We aren't right now, as good as this season is.