CrazyJoeDavola
Registered User
I agree. Klefbom broke the puck out like Steve Staois. Off the glass to the other team. He invented the panic kris russell rim around breakout before Ruseell even got on this team.I love the guy, but he wasn't near what Nurse has been at his best. He had a great shot at times, had moments of excellence, but he was just like any other decade of darkness oilers dman when it came to handling pressure and moving the puck in the d zone. Great 2nd pairing guy, but not much more.Did all of you forget that Nurse played on that exact same team?
Klefbom's final three seasons as an Oiler he was -40 and was our #3 5v5 d-man in TOI/game. Over that same span Darnell Nurse was +8 and was our #1 5v5 d-man in TOI/game. Nurse had better GF/60 and GA/60 numbers and he dominated Klefbom in 5v5 offensive production. Both overall and per/60 (since for some reason people always like to point out that Klefbom was hurt all the time as if that made him more valuable rather than less valube).
It's literally not even close. Y'all are letting Nurse's recent shitty playoffs cloud the fact that he was a better d-man than Klefbom for basically all of their respective time here outside of his first couple of seasons when he was 20/21 years old.
The Klefbom-Larsson pairing was a bad top pair in this league. It's incredible how much Oiler fans overrate both of these two players. The one year the team was actually good with those two here it was Sekera-Russell that was the teams best pairing.