Successors to the Norris?

Question

Niedermayer's retired (maybe) and Lidstrom (37) and Pronger (33) aren't going to be around forever -- who do you see taking the torch from them? A friend of mine assures me that Shea Weber is the next big thing, but I think (and cringe) that it's gotta be Phaneuf.

Answer 1

phanuef is going to be the league next dominant defenceman he hits he passes he shoots he installs fear into his opponents everytime he steps out onto the ice he is the young ray lewis of hockey
he will have an illustrious career

Answer 2

I think we go back to the 80s and have several different prominent defencemen win the award, without anybody stringing together an Orr or Lidstrom like streak.

Leading candidates for a Norris Trophy or 2 (in alphabetical order)
- Keith Ballard
- Francois Beauchemin
- Kevin Bieksa
- Dan Boyle (beast in the east)
- Jay Bouwmeester
- Brian Campbell
- Matthew Carle
- Zdeno Chara (he gets lots of votes, but never enough)
- Tomas Kaberle
-John-Michael Liles
- Andrei Markov
- Dion Phaneuf
- Chris Phillips
- Brian Rafalski
- Wade Redden
- Lubomir Visnovsky
- Shea Weber
- Ryan Whitney
- Marek Zidlicky

Answer 3

It would hard to pass on Phaneuf for sure. The kid has some serious jam. I honestly can't think of another young d-man that has Dion's potential.

Answer 4

some possabilities ( for future as in very young D-men)

No particular Order

Dieon Pheanuef Cal
Kris Russel CBJ
Brett Lebda DET
Andre Mezaros OTT

those are just a few possabilites of who i think will have a good NHL career.

Answer 5

Dion!
I wish Kornwall of Detroit could stay healthy...I think he'd be right up there. And here is Tollefsen in Columbus- this guy is tough! but he will never get noticed playing there.