This will be one of our very few disagreements. I think as fans we are hyper critical of our own. We focus on every mistake, even though this is fairly the domain of D. The D are not helped here either in that we have rather weak goaltending so any mistake they tend to make ends up being punished more, and thus magnified in GA highlights as well as in our minds. I think actually a lot of our D, Eckholm, Nurse, Booch in that order do a commendable job in all they do clean up in terms of rebounds, rush defense etc. All 3 are better defensive D than Walman is.
One other thing that hasn't been mentioned as much is its much harder to be a goto top 4 D continually, on a good club. Because the expectations are there and way higher. Walman hasn't really had to endure that. The 3 top 4 D we've had here have had to play through years of a ton of pressure, and they've played a ton of games. Do they leak at times. Every D does. For the most part they've done an impeccable job and Nurse and Booch are better here than given credit for. Ekholm of course has been outstanding but I feel Nurse is our best D this season.
