Defencemen

Weber, who is three power-play goals away from career No. 100, ranks first among active defencemen and 12th all-time among NHL defencemen in power-play goals.

The 2–1–2 is the most basic forecheck system where two forwards will go in deep and pressure the opposition's defencemen, the third forward stays high and the two defencemen stay at the blueline.

Chatham-Kent AAA Cyclones alum Brandon Montour of the Florida Panthers is eighth in scoring among NHL defencemen with a career-high 41 points in 48 games.

Despite the solid performance against the Maple Leafs, Zadorov was held to only 15:33 minutes of ice time, the second-least of the Flames’ defencemen.

Forward Josh Passolt, defencemen Derek Daschke and Michael Joyaux, as well as goalie Jonathan Lemiuex were all announced as additions to the club on Tuesday (Aug. 8).

He’s also tops among Colorado defencemen with 13 goals and 45 points.

Makar scored his 73rd career goal to move into sole possession of second place on the franchise’s all-time goals list for defencemen.

Several key defencemen including goaltender Will Johnston are out for the season with injuries.

That goal was the eventual game-winner, with Bobrovsky and the Panthers defencemen doing their part to keep the puck out with time winding down — including on great chances for McDavid, Zach Hyman and Mattias Ekholm.

Defencemen Billy Constantinou and Jacob LeGuerrier assisted on three Sault goals each.

He is third all-time in points among Canucks’ defencemen with 321.

With the Canadiens enjoying a surplus of left-shooting defencemen, they can wait for Norlinder to develop for a couple of seasons before bringing him to North America.

On July 1, he sent defencemen Cody Ceci and Ben Harpur to the Toronto Maple Leafs and later traded veteran forward Zack Smith to Chicago.

The coach showed confidence in his young defencemen.

At the time, some NHL talent hawks wondered if Pastrnak’s razzle-dazzle would be doused in North America when he started having to take the ice against ornery defencemen from Saskatchewan.

Forwards Trey Fix-Wolansky, Dylan Guenther, Vince Loschiavo, Carter Souch, Jake Neighbours and defencemen Matthew Robertson all scored for the Oil Kings.

Fourteen forwards and seven defencemen were among the 22 players selected in the first round.

Hynes also elected to go with six defencemen instead of the seven he used in Game 2. Mirco Mueller is a healthy scratch.

Nurse led all Oilers defencemen in scoring last season, although that only took 26 points.

Right now, the club’s injured list includes their top three defencemen (Zdeno Chara, Charlie McAvoy, Torey Krug), a trio of big-time forwards (Patrice Bergeron, David Backes, Rick Nash) and rookie Jake DeBrusk.