Who has the worst defense from the teams in the playoff hunt ?

[Coffee]

The worst defenseman/team defense average, determined and calculated by your judgment of course


And I kindly ask we not be biased in this thread

thanks

 

[hangman005]

Depends on the day, some days us... other days someone else.

 

[NyQuil]

Like team defence?

Defencemen?

Who do you think OP?

 

[Czechboy]

I'm not sure what the criteria here is but if we are talking playoff teams .. oilers will have the second best starter and second best backup in every game. We also only have 1 Right D who is very good but can't defend the best. While the other 2 are either not RD or not that good at it.lol

Top that!

 

[Coffee]

Depends on the day, some days us... other days someone else.

Like team defence?

Defencemen?

Who do you think OP?

I'm not sure what the criteria here is but if we are talking playoff teams .. oilers will have the second best starter and second best backup in every game. We also only have 1 Right D who is very good but can't defend the best. While the other 2 are either not RD or not that good at it.lol

Top that!

Thank you guys for replying quick and making me correct my error. I have changed the OP and clarified my question

Kind regards

Coffee

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Colorado	Dallas	Winnipeg
Toews - Makar​ Girard - Manson Lindgren - Malinski Middleton - EJ	Harley - Lyubushkin Lindell - Ceci Bichsel - Dumba Smith	Morrissey - DeMelo Samberg - Pionk Fleury - Schenn Stanley - Miller Heinola
	LTIR: Heiskanen, Lundkvist

Oilers	Vegas	Florida
Ekholm - Bouchard Nurse - Walman Kulak- Klingberg Stecher - Emberson	Theodore - Pietrangelo​ Hanifin - Whitecloud McNabb - Hague Hutton - Korczak	Forsling - Jones Kulikov - Ekblad* Mikkola - Balinskis Schmidt
		* Ekblad suspended through game 2 of the playoffs.

Washington	Tampa	Toronto
Sandin - Carlson Chychrun - van Riemsdyk Fehervary - Roy Alexeyev - McIlrath	Hedman - Moser McDonagh - Cernak Lilleberg - Perbix Raddysh	Rielly - Carlo McCabe - Tanev Ekman-Larsson - Benoit Myers
		LTIR: Hakanpaa

Courtesy of @Richard88

 

[tarheelhockey]

Statistically, it’s Columbus.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

1) Edmonton.
2) Washington.
3) ..Vegas?

 

[hangman005]

The worst defenseman/team defense average, determined and calculated by your judgment of course


And I kindly ask we not be biased in this thread

thanks

Too much to ask... I'm out

But I'll stick with my original answers, depends on the day, we can play like the best D or the worst D,

 

[eojsmada]

From the eye test, for me, it's:

1) Edmonton
2) Toronto
3) Winnipeg (I'm not including goalies in my evaluation)
4) Columbus
5) Dallas (would change if Heiskanen is able to return)

 

[qc14]

Going to go with just defenseman and not team defense:

Dallas has the most obvious clear weakness with their right side, even when/if Heiskanen returns. Toronto's depth is good but Reilly is the clear worst #1 of any playoff team. The bottom pairs for Colorado, Winnipeg, and Edmonton are all almost at "shouldn't play them in a playoff OT" level for me. CBJ is in biggest need of a clear #2.

Add it all together and I think CBJ is probably the "worst" or least talented group overall, although Toronto's lack of a true #1 puts theirs at "most likely to impede a deep playoff run"

 

[M88K]

The worst defenseman/team defense average, determined and calculated by your judgment of course


And I kindly ask we not be biased in this thread

thanks

This is Dallas.

Ceci, Lyubushkin, Dumba are a d-core of a team trying to tank not compete. Then throw in Smith for good measure too.
Fortunately there's Heiskanen (when healthy) and Harley to do all the heavy lifting

 

[DJJones]

Start of the year I thought Calgarys defense was going to be horrific. When Bahl is in it's actually been great. Weegar single handedly carrying a top pairing with a rotation of #6s.

Not sure if people are recognizing that or just forgetting we're in the playoffs haha

 

[um]

1) Edmonton.
2) Washington.
3) ..Vegas?

Caps got one of the best defenses 1-6 in the league.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Caps got one of the best defenses 1-6 in the league.

And the Sabres have a bright future.

 

[um]

And the Sabres have a bright future.

We're talking about playoff teams, why are you bringing up the Sabres?

 

[benfranklin]

Oilers easily

 

[Romang67]

Going to go with just defenseman and not team defense:

Dallas has the most obvious clear weakness with their right side, even when/if Heiskanen returns. Toronto's depth is good but Reilly is the clear worst #1 of any playoff team. The bottom pairs for Colorado, Winnipeg, and Edmonton are all almost at "shouldn't play them in a playoff OT" level for me. CBJ is in biggest need of a clear #2.

Add it all together and I think CBJ is probably the "worst" or least talented group overall, although Toronto's lack of a true #1 puts theirs at "most likely to impede a deep playoff run"

That's just because we haven't figured out how to Frankenstein our 5 bottom pairing D-men into 2 capable ones yet. If we do before April, look out!

 

[Volica]

Playoff hunt?
Calgary has to be really up high here. Joel Hanley, a career 6/7D character guy is playing top 4 for us, every night; and he has been by far the best option.

 

[authentic]

From the eye test, for me, it's:

1) Edmonton
2) Toronto
3) Winnipeg (I'm not including goalies in my evaluation)
4) Columbus
5) Dallas (would change if Heiskanen is able to return)

Toronto with bad goaltending and without Tanev sure, but I don’t believe this will continue.

 

[eojsmada]

Toronto with bad goaltending and without Tanev sure, but I don’t believe this will continue.

All depends on how much they pay "Pajamas" and Marner to stay.

 

[Zybalto]

Team stats say Columbus.

Edmonton is interesting considering so many are picking them.

Edmonton league ranking this season for team defensive stats:

Fewest shots allowed: 10th
Fewest scoring chances allowed: 7th
Fewest high danger chances allowed: 1st
xGA against: 8th
Goals Against: 15th
Team save%: 19th

Stats say a good defensive team with below average goaltending.

 

[Anemia]

I'd take any team's over Toronto's, not really close.

 

[Zybalto]

All depends on how much they pay "Pajamas" and Marner to stay.

Not sure what that has to do with this other than the fact Tavares is playing maybe the best D of his career the last while and Marner is one of the better defensive wingers in the league. 2 of the 4 MVPs on the team (Tanev and Stolarz the other 2) and I think Toronto is barely a playoff bubble team without them. Only a fool would not be trying to keep those 2 in the fold somehow.

Considering much of the Toronto fanbase and media is clueless about defensive hockey, (they still dont even realize that Keefe was a defensive system coach and Berube is not) not going to get much honesty about the state of the Leafs defensively.

Columbus is the worst and then the Leafs.
That is the truth.

 

[Zybalto]

I'd take any team's over Toronto's, not really close.

As bad as the Leafs have been defensively, having Stolarz makes a huge difference heading into the playoffs for us. Campbell/Samsonov starter for 4 years sucked hard.

Why on earth didnt you guys change up your keeper? It's your only big hole now.