Quoting: rangersandislesfan
Quoting: F50marco
Your opinion must not mean all that much since he plays less than 20 mins on average a night and has been scratched repeatedly this year...... he isn't playing top 2 at the moment either so there really isn't much evidence to validate your opinion. Top 2 dman have to be able score points as well as defend. Ghost can sure score them but play defense....he's still working on it. (Which is fine since he's young and most dman aren't at their best until their 5-6th season in the NHL anyway)
Its no slouch to Ghost either, I like him and would take him on my team any day but he is not a top 2. In any opinion that matters that is.
I'm just saying that in my opinion, he's top 2 level. Yeah, maybe he's not playing top 2 (extra question that i'm curious about: who's playing with Provorov on the top pairing?), but in my opinion, he's a top2.
Lol once again, playing on the "top pairing" doesn't make you a "top pairing dman". My point was to say if he was playing on the top line ,meaning 22+ mins, you would at least have an argument. He doesn't have even that. Its an analogy within a conundrum that saying is but we all get the reference. A top pairing dman is someone who has proven he's able to do everything. Defend, produce, lead etc. Steps into almost any team and is in the conversation with the other guys of that team.
So if he can't defend, he's been scratched more then once this year, he isn't playing on the top line, his minutes are less than 20, what is he exactly? A 31 pt defenceman whose probably better suited being a forward if that's the case, not a top pairing dman.
Once again i say this respect to Ghost. What he did last year was remarkable but if he's going to garner the attention that he got last year, he'll need to be consistent in what he was doing last year. Even scoring slump aside, his defensive game was less mediocre last year.