HockeyBuzz Hotstove: Most underrated defenseman in the NHL?

Leaf Boy picked Jake Gardiner, didn’t see this immense hyperbole coming.

Yes, the Jets will happy to get Morrisey back on Wednesday nite.

Interesting info from all the writers on these players and good info on the misaligned Gardiner from Tanner.

I agree with Todd. He's really good.

Laughably predictable for one person as was the verbal diarreha diatribe as well. Dissapointed there was no REM mention in there to go along with it!

Laughably predictable for one person as was the verbal diarreha diatribe as well. Dissapointed there was no REM mention in there to go along with it!
- Roadrunner75

I knew it was gonna be funny the second I saw the blog title

The Islanders have two gems, Pulock and Toews.

Leaf Boy picked Jake Gardiner, didn’t see this immense hyperbole coming.
- FinnGod

If this was HF, Slavin would’ve won by a landslide

As good as Gardner seems to be he has the unfortunate ability to make a game turning, heart breaking mistake that often leads to a soul crushing defeat.

Okay Tanner doing a parody of his own hyperbole was funny.

Hyperbole is objectively the greatest literary device by a mile and I'm not sure it's close. So sick it's insane!

As good as Gardner seems to be he has the unfortunate ability to make a game turning, heart breaking mistake that often leads to a soul crushing defeat.
- islansjet

Nothing as soul crushing as being so bad that your hockey organization moves away from your one-horse, pissant town due to lack of interest.

Jack Johnson

Dan Girardi

Emmit Fitzhume

Austin Milbarge

Jack Johnson

Dan Girardi

Emmit Fitzhume

Austin Milbarge
- GalacticStone

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Brett Pesce...

I don't know how the heck a D gets +35 when no one else on the rest of his team has anything higher than +10. Obviously he's probably a really good leader on the ice, and one of those foot soldier kinda Ds you need to hold late game leads and kill important minutes.

These guys are like wax on a car - they keep a car looking shiny, and he kept his other Car d look rather shiny.

Lack of interest? Pot calling the kettle black. Nobody in tinseltown gave a sh** when the Kings won the Cup.

Nothing as soul crushing as being so bad that your hockey organization moves away from your one-horse, pissant town due to lack of interest.
- poopstash

Lack of interest? Pot calling the kettle black. Nobody in tinseltown gave a sh** when the Kings won the Cup.

With Gardiner on the ice we score more goals.
With Gardiner on the ice we allow fewer goals against.

He appears to have more giveaways because he has the puck all the time.
He’s our best defenseman.

Lack of interest? Pot calling the kettle black. Nobody in tinseltown gave a sh** when the Kings won the Cup.
- ricroc

Probably because there's stuff to do there...winterpeg lost a team and the only competing interest is the blue bombers

Probably because there's stuff to do there...winterpeg lost a team and the only competing interest is the blue bombers
- poopstash

I have to agree. If I lived in LA hockey would not be at the top of my list of things to do.

In July we'll find out that GM's around the league aren't underrating him.

Due to the injury and slightly down year he may only get 5 years X $6mil but that's still great payday.

In July we'll find out that GM's around the league aren't underrating him.

Due to the injury and slightly down year he may only get 5 years X $6mil but that's still great payday.
- Njuice

For sure. He’ll be a sought after player.

Probably because there's stuff to do there...winterpeg lost a team and the only competing interest is the blue bombers
- poopstash

Great that you have now acknowledged that nobody gives a sh** about the Kings in LA and the Jets have great interest in the Peg.

Gardiner is funny, people think he's so bad defensively, yet his analytics are downright elite.
Put him in Arizona and no one knows about his mistakes.

If this was HF, Slavin would’ve won by a landslide
- Nucker101

I love HF, the same guys are mentioned as "Underrated" thousands of times. Apparently Barkov is so underrated. So much so, I hear it daily.

Great that you have now acknowledged that nobody gives a sh** about the Kings in LA and the Jets have great interest in the Peg.
- ricroc

So much interest the team moved to Phoenix