HFBoards Top 31 NHL Defenders - #20

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Rank	Player	Age	Team	Country	GP	G	A	P	%
#1	Victor Hedman	28			70	12	42	54	61.8%
#2	Erik Karlsson	29			53	3	42	45	49.2%
#3	Drew Doughty	29			82	8	37	45	33.8%
#4	Brent Burns	34			82	16	67	83	33.8%
#5	Mark Giordano	35			78	17	57	75	46.5%
#6	Seth Jones	24			75	9	37	46	48.4%
#7	Alex Pietrangelo	29			71	13	28	41	36.1%
#8	Roman Josi	29			82	15	41	56	35.4%
#9	Morgan Rielly	25			82	20	52	72	32.4%
#10	John Carlson	29			80	13	57	70	26.5%
#11	John Klingberg	27			64	10	35	45	19.3%, 65.7% (TB)
#12	P.K. Subban	30			63	9	22	31	19.9%, 34.3% (TB)
#13	Kris Letang	32			65	16	40	56	28.6%
#14	Jaccob Slavin	25			82	8	23	31	30.6%
#15	Hampus Lindholm	25			76	6	22	28	20.0%, 54.1%
#16	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	28	:coyotes		81	14	30	44	20.7%, 45.9%
#17	Shea Weber	34			58	14	19	33	33.8%
#18	Colton Parayko	26			80	10	18	28	30.4%
#19	Ryan Suter	34			82	7	40	47	20.6%
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[buffalosabrebills]

Voted Ekholm. It’s getting close to putting Dahlin, Heiskanen, Chabot in here. All 3 will probably be better than a chunk of this list next year.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Dumba is underrated.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Keith getting underrated. 9th out of Dmen in ES pts last year, +13 on the 2nd worst defensive team in the league.

 

[Bouboumaster]

For me, it's between Ekholm vs McAvoy. Went with McAvoy, because I think he'll have a good year.

 

[wintersej]

Dahlin, Heiskanen, Chabot and McAvoy I take above the veteran options here. Homer voted McAvoy, but with young D its a crap shoot*. Of those 4 McAvoy has proven it deeper in the playoffs, but not to say the others couldn't or wouldn't.

I get the Ekholm votes, he is coming off a career year offensively, but (perhaps unfairly) I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt. His 5 on 5 points numbers nearly double his pervious career high.Those secondary assist numbers are especially dubious. Tied with McDavid, Rantanen and Barkov in 5 on 5 secondary assists. Seems hard to duplicate. A very very very very good d-man. Not trying to dump on him... but I don't think he magically got THAT much better offensively.

*Case in point, how high were Provy and Werenski on this list last year?

 

[pekkaspecker]

Ekholm

 

[Dion TheFluff]

Chabot is seriously underrated

 

[Merrrlin]

Chabot is seriously underrated

Can you imagine thinking Suter, Ekholm and Weber are better than Chabot? Crazy.

 

[Sting]

Hell, even Parayko or OEL. Chabot and McAvoy are absolutely better overall d-men than #15-19.

 

[The S5]

McDonagh may be the best defender on this entire list.

 

[Ctrain2k]

McDonagh may be the best defender on this entire list.

This is the 9th time I’m voting for him.

 

[Dr Salt]

Ekholm and it should have been Ekholm a while ago.

 

[Machinehead]

McAvoy for like the 6th time.