Re: Rank these Dmen - Ghost, Shatty, Barrie
Originally Posted by
chuckcouples
I just can't get on board with Gostisbehere, he's bad defensively. He's worse than Barrie is by quite a bit in my opinion.
He will likely never be more than a 3rd pairing dman. Barrie is one of the two best dmen in Colorado and that's not going to change any time soon. He will likely continue to play 3+ minutes more per game than Gostisbehere will. Barrie will have Erik Johnson, Nikita Zadorov, Duncan Siemens and Chris Bigras to compete with for ice time in the future. Gostisbehere has Provorov, Hagg, Morin, Sanheim to compete with. That is a much better group of dmen that will take away more of Gostisbehere's ice time.
You did selectively cut my quote off, and the being on a bad team bit really is dragging him down.
There is going to be a lot of movement this offseason, so we could see a new top D in Colorado by the beginning of next season.
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