Is Gostisbehere a Norris contender at the end of this season?

[Ben White]

Will he be?

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[Sol]

Nah he won't.

 

[tictactoe]

Too early but looks like he will score some points this season for sure..

 

[Tripod]

No.

We don't need threads asking this of every Dman.

 

[TheMule93]

He's good offensively so I can see it happening

 

[Ainec]

it's Gostisbehere

tip: Gots/Gos to/tis be here

He's a beast offensively. I think he has the potential to score 70 tbh but no Pietrangelo and Karlsson are leading

 

[Canada4Gold]

Damn, I thought Gost is be here, it can't be us, we're not all here, only Gost is here and Gost will be here.

edit: Title corrected, this post will now forever appear to be mindless babbling.

 

[Ainec]

I think he should be a lock for any Team USA squad

 

[Halla]

he would need to have 80+ pts to even be a candidate

 

[Canada4Gold]

I would say no probably not. My fantasy team is loving it, shoutout to people who don't understand bad oiSH% luck, unfortunately I didn't get Voracek and Giroux for the same reasons as well. Ghost will put up a lot of points, but I'm not sure it will be enough for that type of defenceman. I feel like he'd probably need to be like 2nd or 3rd in defenceman points at the end of the year to get into that discussion and I don't think he's quite that good.

 

[Dominance]

Not even close, or the best defense man on the Flyers.

 

[Signupnow]

The question is who are the norris pretenders this year. Considering King karl.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Nope, not a well known enough name, not known to be good enough defensively and too large of a percentage of PP points.

 

[mw2noobbuster]

Isn't ghost a trainwreck in his own zone? He's not even the best Dman on his team.

 

[Ainec]

Not a trainwreck at all

 

[PatrikBerglund]

Holy f***, no.

He isn't even a top-30 defenceman overall.

 

[DFAC]

Not at all

 

[Vikke]

No, Provorov is a better bet, but he's still a few seasons away from getting the real Norris hype.

 

[HyPnOtiK]

No, Provorov is a better bet, but he's still a few seasons away from getting the real Norris hype.

Not a chance.

Provorov is the better defenseman but they look at points.

Ghost has a shot if Karlsson gets hurt, but he certainly won't be the "best defenseman " in the league

 

[HyPnOtiK]

Isn't ghost a trainwreck in his own zone? He's not even the best Dman on his team.

No, his defense has been very good much of last year and all of this year. He's getting labled due to his offensive talent

 

[HyPnOtiK]

He's a front runner with Klingberg at this point. Ghost is better overall but Klingberg holds advantage with points... it's really amazing how good defensively this kid has become to compliment being one of the best offensive defenseman in the league

 

[Tripod]

He's a front runner with Klingberg at this point. Ghost is better overall but Klingberg holds advantage with points... it's really amazing how good defensively this kid has become to compliment being one of the best offensive defenseman in the league

It will be ignored, but he has played great defensively ever since he did not have to carry around the carcass of both AMac and Hagg.

 

[ESH]

He’ll probably get some votes for his point totals, even though Provorov should be the one who gets votes on the Flyers.

 

[HyPnOtiK]

He’ll probably get some votes for his point totals, even though Provorov should be the one who gets votes on the Flyers.

ATM Ghost is playing lights out both ends, better than Provorov. But in general I agree, if Norris worked correctly Provorov would be more deserving.

Ghost- Provorov.... hard to name 5 better pairings

 

[mja]

I hate this thread.

And for the people who don't actually watch the games, Ghost has been the Flyers best defenseman in all three zones for months now. It just goes against the lazy narrative, so people won't believe it. Even his own damn coach can't wrap his head around it. But nevertheless, it's true, Ghost is absolutely killing it all over the ice and Provorov has been the lesser player on that pairing.