bucks_oil
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- Aug 25, 2005
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Ekholm is who he always was. A great top-pair defenseman.
Like I said when the trade went down: Ekholm will make Oilers fans realize that Nurse is a wildly-overpaid #3, which is what everyone has been trying to tell them forever.
To me he's more of a wildly overpaid #2. His skating, passing, and nastiness skills are #1D, his brain is a #5D. He plays some of the toughest competition in the league and consistently comes out ahead at EV. So on most nights he's more than carrying the mail in a top pairing role with Ceci as his partner (yipes!).
... and then every 4-5 games he loses a game for you trying to do too much (or quite often, trying to do someone else's job). Frustrating.