Is the single most important factor in being a defenceman:
1) ability to play the point on the power play?
2) how fast and well a person skates side-to-side and backwards?
3) size, and assertiveness in front of your own goal?
4) the hardness of a person's shot and keeping the shot low?
5) the ability to choose correctly when to join a rush/pinch in and when not to?
6) the ability to defend the even-man rush and the odd-man rush?
7) the ability to know not to make your game more complicated than what you can handle?
8) something else?
I ask the question because defenceman is the position that's the hardest to judge whether somebody will make it at the NHL level with. What do you think is the single most important factor? Also, the NHL says the Norris trophy is for the league's "best" defenceman - but the "best" defenceman sometimes isn't the best defenceman, if you were to ask the experts.
2006-09-11
11:35:21
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Ilmari_Karjalainen
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