This is the only post in the thread actually talking about his game. How was his game off the puck? Was he good on face-offs? Was he physical? Was he strong defensively? He was kinda quiet and never made much fuzz for a non-partial viewer of the game, a bit like Janney.
i feel like he was good enough at all the little things but not great at any of them. so a much better player than janney solely by virtue of being a little better than average defensively, having a slight bit of jam, being willing and able to fight through tight checking, etc, while being every bit as good offensively.
so no, he wasn't a cream puff or a defensive liability or anything like that. for a star center, you liked everything about doug weight except for his unwillingness to shoot the puck. but in terms of completeness, he was also a world away from fedorov, modano, and those guys.
there are a few years in there in weight's peak that i would have him above sundin, maybe just 2000 and 2001 actually. by then, mats wasn't in the western conference anymore anyway.
weight played in edmonton from '94 to 2001. all but a couple of those years i think you'd still have roenick ahead too.
so yes, fair to say that except for when he was at his very very best, which was 2001, the only year he got any all-star love at all, doug weight was 7th or 8th best player in his conference, depending on whether sundin was in his conference.
