Who has been a better defenceman on this team? Karlsson plays the most minutes against the best players of the opposition. Give him a break.
The rest of the defensive core is either to young or just God awful to even compare them to Karlsson. Even mediocre Karlsson.
I mean Cowen doesn't even play for the sens anymore. Borocop is one dimensional big hitter. Phillips needs to retire. Ceci is still very young. Weirsy plays hard half the time. Methot is injured. Gryba a is a big slow defensive dman. Ha lets keep bashing the only defenceman on the team that actually can play with the best players in the world. Remember Karlsson dominated the Olympics.
Anyways... This fan base is all about the "what have you done for me lately" type... It's really sad.
You were doing pretty good until you decided that the best way to respond to someone bashing Karlsson was to just bash everyone else.
Karlsson is clearly head and shoulders over any other D on the team. If you compare him to the rest of the team, and most other teams, he has been more than good. If you compare him to the standard he set prior to his injury then no, he has not been up there yet. We are only 7 games in, so a few people do need to relax about things like that though.
Ceci has been tremendous so far this season. He has been asked to play a top 4 role at a very young age, and he has handled himself well.
Borocop's hitting is a huge part of his game. However, his value increased tremendously when he focused on playing a simple game in position and staying out of the penalty box. He is not a top 4 guy at all, but every team needs 5/6 D. He has been playing well above where people thought he would be.
Gryba is a slow defensive D. No argument. He is a run of the mill 5/6 guy that every team has. That is not a knock or a compliment. He simply is what he is.
Wiercioch has been pretty bad for the most part. He can make up for being soft as butter by making great passes, but we have not seen enough of that in his game so far.
Cowen has also been pretty bad.
The most outrageous comment in your post was that Phillips should just retire already. The man is playing the second most D minutes on our team, and he has elevated his game big time from last season to now. With the injury to Meth we would be totally screwed right now if it was not for Phillips playing great minutes for us. He has basically slapped a big ol' "Shut the ___up" sign on the hater comments with his play.