Quoting: DefenseFirst
I’m not exactly in the mood to look through every team in the east - but I am watching the hurricanes game right now, so jalen chatfield. 2nd pair, no power play team, a distant fifth on the team in pk time
Are you, straight face, going to tell me that Jalen Chatfield, a man averaging under 14 all-situation minutes a game this season, should be considered a top 4 defenseman?
Let me be clear, he plays 13:45 a game.
Of those 13:45 minutes, exactly 1 minute is spent on the PK. So even if he was a top 4 dman, he would pass what I was looking for.
Grzelyck averages 30 seconds of PP a game, and 11 seconds of PK.
I was looking for anyone who plays top 4 even strength minutes for their team, and has under 1 minute in both PP and PK. I figured I was being generous by doubling Grz's PP time, honestly.
Anyways, that means Chatfield plays 12:45 minutes of non-PK time a game, and you are going to unironically try to sell me that he is a 2nd pairing defenseman. That he supplants one of Slavin (19:14 ES ATOI), Skjei (18:31), Pesce (18:15), and Burns (17:37) as one of Carolina's top four defensemen?