b in vancouver
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- Jul 28, 2005
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Sometimes I miss the days were a guy like P.J. Axelsson would be out there shadowing a guy like Lemieux no matter where he went on the ice. Not for the exciting hockey, but how you could really appreciate the defensive aspect of particular wingers more clearly.
Nowadays I'd pick Stone. Marchand is probably the most 'effective' defensively but so much of that has to do with how well him and Bergeron work together, both on the p.k., and pressuring players and funnelling the puck carrier towards one another etc. so it's harder to see him in a vacuum.
Nowadays I'd pick Stone. Marchand is probably the most 'effective' defensively but so much of that has to do with how well him and Bergeron work together, both on the p.k., and pressuring players and funnelling the puck carrier towards one another etc. so it's harder to see him in a vacuum.
