Dmen Breakdown

So, since Sporer didn't understand the forwards break down, I thought I would simplify it for him. In order to determine the most EFFECTIVE (again, not necessarily the best) six Dmen, I took a look at the obvious goals, assists, points columns, but also at the number of blocked shots and hits stats too. It's those key shot blocks or momentum changing hits that can take your team out of a rut and lead them to victory; however, I don't think they are as valuable as points, so, lets add up ¼ of the shot blocks and ¼ of the hits with the points and see which bunch is leading the league in efficenty... (category leaders are in bold)

	G	A	PTS	BS	HIT
Anaheim (Pronger, Niedermayer, Montador, Huskins, Beauchemin, Hedican)	17	33	50	138	140
Atlanta (Enstrom, Exelby, Hainsey, Havelid, Schneider, Oystrick)	11	32	43	211	151
Boston (Chara, Stuart, Ward, Wideman, Hnidy, Ference)	11	28	39	158	202
Buffalo (Lydman, Numminen, Sekera, Spacek, Tallinder, Rivet)	3	42	45	205	128
Calgary (Phaneuf, Aucion, Giordano, Sarich, Regehr, Vandermeer)	8	41	49	121	205
Carolina (Corvo, Wallin, Seidenberg, Gleason, Babchuk, Pitkanen)	8	44	52	217	208
Chicago (Campbell, Keith, Seabrook, Johnson, Sopel, Barker)	16	37	53	146	147
Colorado (Clark, Leopold, Salei, Hannan, Liles, Foote)	7	25	32	289	137
Columbus (Commodore, Hejda, Tyutin, Backman, Methot, Klesla)	9	33	42	187	228
Dallas (Daley, Grossman, Robidas, Niskanen, Sydor, Zubov)	5	30	35	151	159
Detroit (Lidstrom, Rafalski, Kronwall, Stuart, Lilja, Lebda)	9	53	62	150	163
Edmonton (Gilbert, Visnovsky, Souray, Staios, Grebeshkov, Strudwick)	17	45	62	204	123
Florida (Ballard, Bouwmeester, Skrastins, Boynton, Cullimore, McCabe)	14	38	52	200	163
Los Angeles (Doughty, Greene, O'Donnell, Gauthier, Quincey, Preissing)	8	33	41	181	221
Minnesota (Bergeron, Johnsson, Schultz, Skoula, Burns, Zidlicky)	11	40	51	191	116
Montreal (Gorges, Markov, Hamrlik, Brisebois, Bouillon, O'Byrne)	10	34	44	239	194
Nashville (De Vries, Hamhuis, Suter, Weber, Zanon, Koistinen)	20	42	62	194	202
New Jersey (Oduya, White, Salvador, Mottau, Martin, Salmela)	5	30	35	181	125
NYI (Streit, Gervais, Campoli, Sutton, Witt, Meyer)	12	32	44	191	152
NYR (Girardi, Kalinin, Mara, Redden, Rozsival, Staal)	9	52	61	195	299
Ottawa (Kuba, Phillips, Smith, Volchenkov, Picard, Schubert)	6	29	35	250	226
Philadelphia (Coburn, Sbisa, Timonen, Alberts, Carle, Vaananen)	7	39	46	262	158
Phoenix (Jovanovski, Michalek, Sauer, Morris, Yandle, Hale)	7	36	43	244	147
PIttsburgh (Letang, Orpik, Scuderi, Goligoski, Gill, Boucher)	7	32	39	285	238
San Jose (Blake, Ehrhoff, Vlasic, Boyle, Lukowich, Murray)	19	63	82	179	182
St. Louis (Brewer, Jackman, McKee, Polak, Wagner, Colaiacovo)	5	15	20	213	163
Tampa Bay (Eminger, Meszaros, Lundin, Krajicek, Ranger, Malik)	2	28	30	194	116
Toronto (Kaberle, Kubina, Schenn, Finger, Stralman, Van Ryn)	13	36	49	216	180
Vancouver (O'Brien, Mitchell, Ohlund, Edler, Salo, Bieksa)	11	47	58	193	187
Washington (Jurcina, Schultz, Morrisonn, Erskine, Green, Poti)	11	28	39	144	152

Which, breaks down from #1 – #30 as follows...

1. NYR - 184.50

2. San Jose - 172.25

3. Pittsburgh - 169.75

4. Nashville - 161.00

5. Carolina - 158.25

6. Ottawa - 154.00

7. Vancouver - 153.00

8. Montreal - 152.25

9. Philadelphia - 151.00

10. Toronto - 148.00

11. Columbus - 145.75

12. Edmonton - 143.75

13. Florida - 142.75

14. Los Angeles - 141.50

15. Phoenix - 140.75

16. Detroit - 140.25

17. Colorado - 138.50

18. Atlanta - 133.50

19. Calgary - 130.50

20. NYI - 129.75

21. Buffalo - 128.25

22. Minnesota - 127.75

23. Boston - 127.50

24. Chicago - 126.25

25. Anaheim - 119.50

26. St. Louis - 114.00

27. Washington - 113.00

28. Dallas - 112.50

29. NJD - 111.50

30. Tampa Bay - 107.50
    

Interesting isn't it? Anaheim near the bottom with Carolina near the top, and notice NJD near the bottom, certainly a changed group from the Nidermayer, Stevens, Rafalski days. To me, the biggest surprise might just be the Penguins, missing Gonchar and Whitney, are sittind 3^rd. It just goes to show that, doing the little things often and repeatedly will breathe success into your lineup. Again, take what you will from it, just throwing some stats together to get an idea of who is really a contender and who might just be a pretender...

-Cheers

Smith.