Modifié 22 sept. 2023 à 18 h 24
Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy
Spurgeon is fine offensively, very good defensively. Pulock should be in your top 20 by that logic
Jones had a a very good season last year and was solid the year before that. He absolutely doesn't suck, he's about 1-1.5M overpaid only and playing on a team designed to tank.
Ekblad had quite the list of injuries last year. You don't just "fall off" from being a top ~7 defenseman in the league at age 27.
Rielly gets Toronto hate, he's underrated if anything, offensively he's one of the better play driving defensemen in the league and he's serviceable but not great defensively. Really not that different from Hughes, who you have 9th.
Weegar should be ranked no more than 2 spots behind Toews, they are nearly identical players
Some big key issues here.
I don't know what season you were watching, but it wasn't Jones's season. He was terrible. His 5v5 metrics were in the gutter and everyone KNEW his contract was a massive overpayment even back when he signed it.
Spurgeon consistently produces very good 5v5 defensive and offensive impacts, people just often overlook him because he bounces around the powerplays and isn't an elite passer. As for Pulock, I just forgot to include him.
Even if Ekblad suffered from injuries, it's affected his play. Only 38 points in 71 gams and had a whopping -14 last season. In my terms, falling off isn't much of a stretch. He had a big fall off last season.
Rielly gets Toronto hate because sure, he can move the puck, but is terrible defensively. Brodie had one of the best defensive seasons of his career because he was responsible for constantly bailing Rielly out in the defensive zone. He also rides the success off of how good PP1 is. As for the Hughes comparison, it's not even close. Hughes is like 3x better defensively than Rielly. AND Hughes scores more points on a much worse team
I just completely forgot about Weegar.