Svech outhustles every guy on the team on his back checks, chasing his guy all the way down to the goal line. He’s done it since he was 18, it’s why Rod played him early on. He and Foegele were the only guys on the team who would do it all the way back. Most give up when it looks like the play is dying or does die. Svech will chase them anyways. He takes stupid stick fouls and his passing choices makes his puck management questionable but he does his main defensive duty better than any guy on the team. I don’t know how that figures into the maths here, but I hold Svech in high regard in general about his defensive play. Aho is not a stud defensively, as we most recently saw on the game losing goal the other night. He’s a good all around two way guy but he’s often guilty of sitting in passing lanes hoping to pick off pucks instead of actually chasing down the guy he should be.