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The Whalers had a bad season in 1982/83, but after that they were better than they had been with Howe. Siltanen had 128 and 126 goals on ice for, 98 and 92 against. Howe in his final Hartford season had 129 for, 120 against. Siltanen was short, but not physically weak or particularly bad defensively. Was called "the Hulk" in Edmonton for a reason.
Listing TGF/TGA for a player who plays PP but doesn't PK is pointless.
They tried putting Siltanen into 1D minutes in 82-83 and he was destoyed and a -39.
Each year after that his icetime dropped and dropped again to the point where by 86-87 (at the age of only 28) he was basically a pure PP specialist playing #6D minutes and was demoted to the AHL despite being the team's highest-scoring defender.
All of the evidence indicates he was not good defensively, at all.