Who is your selection for the "Barry Ashbee Trophy" as team's best defenseman?

[DancingPanther]

It's voted on by the writers. Who don't know anything more than points, minutes, and +/-

Also, that there's no way a guy who got waived could possibly be good.

Like I said, no way the organization would clown on Fletcher like that

Implying yes, the writers are just an extension of the organization. Aka mouthpieces

 

[ajgoal]

Like I said, no way the organization would clown on Fletcher like that

Implying yes, the writers are just an extension of the organization. Aka mouthpieces

Some are, I agree. I just think the larger majority are morons.

 

[kudymen]

@Striiker you voted for someone else than I did, good cover move

 

[Starat327]

Some are, I agree. I just think the larger majority are morons.

They all have the Provorov is elite, he just needs a better partner mentality -- I would be wildly surprised if any of our beats approached this with a logical thought process and gave the award to the personw ho actually deserved it.

 

[GKJ]

All in on the guy who was benched and waived winning best defenseman

 

[Rich Nixon]

Gustafsson probably

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

At this point just give it to Cam York...

 

[Lotusflower]

Ghost. Because I love chaos.

 

[Rebels57]

The teams best defender is @deadhead

No one else deserves the Ashbee more

 

[wankstifier]

The answer is my avatar

If they give a winger an award meant for a defenseman, the writers are dead to me

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Provolone

 

[Tripod]

I stand by my comments thru the year that I don't trust any of them to play good defense on a nightly basis.

 

[Striiker]

The fact that Provorov has 10 votes sure does back up the claim that it doesn’t matter what he does on the ice, he’ll get praise no matter what, just based on reputation alone.

More votes than BDB and Sanheim? Insanity.

 

[Starat327]

The fact that Provorov has 10 votes sure does back up the claim that it doesn’t matter what he does on the ice, he’ll get praise no matter what, just based on reputation alone.

More votes than BDB and Sanheim? Insanity.

I don't put a whole lot of stock in HF polls generally, but it's nice to see that most of the people on these boards can appreciate and be honest about our best defender.

 

[Striiker]

I don't put a whole lot of stock in HF polls generally, but it's nice to see that most of the people on these boards can appreciate and be honest about our best defender.

How the hell do you figure that? He only has two votes...

 

[Rebels57]

I don't put a whole lot of stock in HF polls generally, but it's nice to see that most of the people on these boards can appreciate and be honest about our best defender.

Not much of an accomplishment this season.

 

[Starat327]

Not much of an accomplishment this season.

Being the best D on this team? I'd agree.

Getting people around here to admit it? That's an accomplishment.

 

[Starat327]

How the hell do you figure that? He only has two votes...

Bad noodle

 

[Striiker]

Being the best D on this team? I'd agree.

Getting people around here to admit it? That's an accomplishment.

To be serious for a second, Ghost and Sanheim outplaying the others isn't much of an accomplishment because everyone else has been varying levels of trash.

However, the fact that they've been as good as they have been in both eye test and statistics, while taking into account the problems on the team around them and the trash they've had to carry all year, actually is impressive. Being statistically positive when the team as a whole is statistically negative is pretty good, especially when you're both being screwed with all year long by the coaches.

They both deserve praise for their play this year, although I'd be shocked to see them get it.

 

[renberg]

To be serious for a second, Ghost and Sanheim outplaying the others isn't much of an accomplishment because everyone else has been varying levels of trash.

Not to beat a dead horse here but when the entire defense plays like dog ****, it means either they are all bad or the schemes that they are being asked to play is dog ****. My call is that it is the latter.
Whoever is drawing this up and utilizing has to go. Boston has a pretty young defense but Cassidy has developed a system of play that utilizes his player’s strengths and minimizes their deficiencies. Maybe in the AV/Yeo world, young d-men doesn’t work. However the assumption that young defenseman have to suck is false.