Quoting: mv21227
I think when people see a dman is smaller and/or puts up a lot of points they just assume he’s offense only. There are still quite a lot of people (mostly on twitter) who still see Hughes as an offense only dman who’s bad defensively, when in reality his defensive game has been very good for 3 seasons now, and elite this year
Just looking at The Athletic’s recent list of top shutdown dmen this year….
16. Vladislav Gavrikov
17. Quinn Hughes
18. Brady Skjei
19. Brayden McNabb
20. Brendan Dillon
(Ahead of Miro Heiskanen, Artem Zub, Brock Faber, Colton Parayko, Devon Toews, K’Andre Miller, Sean Walker, Esa Lindell, Kaiden Guhle, Jamie Oleksiak, Adam Pelech)