Who Is The Best Defensive Winger?

[pi314]

Maybe it's just me... but it seems the Selke only goes to C's.

Who is the best defensive winger?

 

[DFAC]

Marchand and Stone come to mind

 

[philip]

Oshie is pretty defensively responsible and capable

 

[McStimperi]

Niederreiter is up there.

 

[Akrapovince]

Marchand and Stone come to mind

Came here to say the exact same thing.

Only question is Marchy a product of Beegy and big Z or not.

 

[triggrman]

Not many defensive responsibilities for wingers so it's hard to judge.

 

[QcFlames12]

Mark Stone is the most defensively capable winger in the league. No use being a homer on this one.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Probably Stone. I'll shout out Palat.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

i like palat for this

 

[Mickey Marner]

Came here to say the exact same thing.

Only question is Marchy a product of Beegy and big Z or not.

Marchand is a ~60 CA/60 away from Bergeron and a ~45 CA/60 with him. Fantastic PK'er though. Those two have the best combination of pace and structure in the NHL.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

I like Jaden Scwartz's ability to get pucks back in all 3 zones and on the forecheck and backcheck

 

[AvatarAang]

Max Pacioretty

-Habs Fans

 

[ESH]

Definitely not the best, but Frolik is a guy who never gets any recognition for what he does. And what he does is provide consistently excellent effort in all 3 zones. He is easily one of the better defensive wingers in the league.

 

[OvermanKingGainer]

Paul Byron

 

[LeProspector]

Mark Stone has to be up there.

 

[57special]

Niederreiter is up there.

Sorry, but I watch all the Wild games and I don't see that at all.

 

[gwh]

Forwards with over 3.0 individual 5v5 takeaways per 60. Players over 500min regular season 5v5 TOI

(No particular order. Source Corsica.)

Chiasson

Tuch

Forsberg

Pageau

Armia

Draisaitl

Nick Bonino

Marner

Nick smaltz

 

[Prairie Habs]

Max Pacioretty

-Habs Fans

Who hurt you?

 

[Appleyard]

Not the best... but Michael Raffl deserves a mention amongst guys who don't score that much (though crazily enough he has scored at ~low end 1st line level 5v5 over his career). Fantastic defensive winger.

 

[OVrocks]

Ovechkin

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Cogliano

 

[A91]

Stone, Palat as others have mentioned.

RNH will be a LW this season hes a very responsible 2-way player

 

[AndreRoy]

Palat’s definitely up there.

 

[tony d]

Palat and Stone for me. As has been said really not that many defensive minded wingers out there.

 

[Peasy]

Reilly Smith

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Radek Faksa is my up and comer.

Silfverberg and Cogliano are up there for sure too. That line when healthy is the modern shutdown line imo.

 

[Iapyi]

Not many defensive responsibilities for wingers so it's hard to judge.

Learn something new about the game of hockey every day.

One of the Canadian Maple Leafs is the the best in the league.

 

[Shaffer]

Hagelin

The homer in me has to speak.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Radek Faksa is my up and comer.

Silfverberg and Cogliano are up there for sure too. That line when healthy is the modern shutdown line imo.

Faksa is a center

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

Palat is ridiculous good sometimes. For what it's worth Ryan Callahan is still good at what he does