Best all-around Defenseman in todays NHL?

[User9992]

Best all-around Defenseman in todays NHL?

Defense + Offense + Leadership, Intangibles etc.?

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[KoozNetsOff 92]

Hedman for sure.

 

[MightySelanne8]

Its gotta be Hedman, quite easily.

 

[jetsforever]

Hedman

 

[hockeyisgud]

Hughes is better than almost everyone on this list

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

Fox. Not sure how you measure intangibles but Fox dominates at both ends.

 

[NyQuil]

Hughes is better than almost everyone on this list

Agreed.

Except for a bunch of them.

 

[wetcoast]

Thought about Hedman but for a single season no salary cap requirements etc… I would take Makar as he really tilts the ice.

Hedman is a good choice too.

 

[Sting]

Agreed.

Except for a bunch of them.

Plus a few not on that list.

 

[Xspyrit]

1- Hedman
2- Fox

Ekblad, Chabot, Werenski and Letang should be in the options

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Hedman pretty easily for me.

 

[SHANNYPLAN]

Hedman, not close

 

[Maplebeasts]

Right now? It's Fox. He's the only guy here I would say is uber elite both offensively and defensively. Also no-one here knows shit about intangibles unless the player is a well known locker room problem.

 

[KUUUUCH]

Hedman AINEC

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

Hedman AINEC

Has he not been sorta mediocre on D this season ( for him) ? He's a stud no doubt just looking for clarification

 

[wetcoast]

1- Hedman
2- Fox

Ekblad, Chabot, Werenski and Letang should be in the options

Doughty as well.

 

[Jauffre]

My heart says Fox but I went with Hedman.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

I've been really impressed with Fox, but I'd like to see a bit more out of him before calling him the best defenseman in the league.

Having said that, I really feel like this is a bit of a dark period for defensemen. The current crop of NHL dmen seem significantly weaker than they've been in a while. No real game breakers, no real franchise guys that will contend for the Hart. Lots of elite two-way players, but there just isn't that star power like before. Even go back about 10 years ago and you had Weber, Karlsson, Doughty, and Keith who all had legitimate arguments for being top 10 players in the league. I'm not too sure there's any defenseman in the league now that would cut the current top 10 best players.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Hedman

 

[rangersfansince08]

Fox

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

I've been really impressed with Fox, but I'd like to see a bit more out of him before calling him the best defenseman in the league.

Having said that, I really feel like this is a bit of a dark period for defensemen. The current crop of NHL dmen seem significantly weaker than they've been in a while. No real game breakers, no real franchise guys that will contend for the Hart. Lots of elite two-way players, but there just isn't that star power like before. Even go back about 10 years ago and you had Weber, Karlsson, Doughty, and Keith who all had legitimate arguments for being top 10 players in the league. I'm not too sure there's any defenseman in the league now that would cut the current top 10 best players.

I think there’s a pretty strong case to be made for Makar, Fox, and Hedman all being top-10 players in the game right now.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Hedman, not that close either

 

[Regal]

I've been really impressed with Fox, but I'd like to see a bit more out of him before calling him the best defenseman in the league.

Having said that, I really feel like this is a bit of a dark period for defensemen. The current crop of NHL dmen seem significantly weaker than they've been in a while. No real game breakers, no real franchise guys that will contend for the Hart. Lots of elite two-way players, but there just isn't that star power like before. Even go back about 10 years ago and you had Weber, Karlsson, Doughty, and Keith who all had legitimate arguments for being top 10 players in the league. I'm not too sure there's any defenseman in the league now that would cut the current top 10 best players.

I think this was true a couple years ago, but Hedman, Makar and Fox all can slot into that group you mentioned pretty easily. The game breaker seems especially odd as I’d say Karlsson is the only defenseman who might be a bigger game breaker on defense than Makar in the past 25 -30 years. And I think the young defenseman talent is some of the best it’s ever been right now. In addition to Fox and Makar, there’s McAvoy, Heiskanen, Hughes, Seider, Ekblad, etc.

 

[QJL]

Fox has been better than Hedman on both ends of the ice for more than a full season now. It’s close though, and they’re the clear top 2 with Josi in 3rd.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Hedman or Fox. Inclined to vote for Hedman right now.