Marc Staal, the only compliment I have for him is that he's probably not as bad of a human as he is a defenseman. And that's not saying a whole lot.
Today's category is worst defenseman. I'd try to avoid using duplicates as much as possible so if you can resist voting Marc Staal then please do, If not I understand.
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Mike Matheson
I have never created the puck touching someone’s stick quite like I did with Mike. It’s like he was trying to give it away in our zone on purpose, never met a turnover he didn’t yearn to cough up.
It’s wild he won some tournament best Defenseman, came in with wild hype, signed a big ticket and sucked so hard right after. The whole slamming Elias Pettersson into the crust of the earth thing must have taken a toll on him, and he did bring us Horny so I can’t be too hard on him.
Josh brown was pretty bad too
Yandle.
Jason Demers
I’d nominate Anton Strahlman. In his prime, he was solid for Tampa. But he was way past his prime with us when his injuries had caught up to him and he could no longer keep up with the pace of play. It was incredibly telling when he was out there.
I know other contenders such as Yandle and Matheson are tempting, but Yandle at the very least had a couple of seasons where he put up numbers for us offensively and ran the powerplay well and Matheson at least offensive upside as well. Strahlman was a complete liability on his on end and was a complete non factor offensively.