Problem is it\'s the offensive defensman that gets all the recognition. Have seen it many times over the past few years, kids that skate the puck up the ice and leave their partner high and dry with 2 and 3 on one\'s and can\'t play even a little defense get D1 commits and drafted in the USHL. My kid has been a stay at home defenseman his entire life, makes great tape to tape breakout passes, perfect indirect passes, great stick, strong at moving bodies from the front of the net, wins the puck battles in the corners and behind the net, and kills almost every penalty and has only been on the ice for 12 goals against in 4 years of varsity in CCL Div 1., never does the useless one timers that hit the net about 2% of the time but has a rocket of a wrist shot and quick release from the point keeping it low and hard and nothing but invites to USHL and NAHL camps, goes to camp does the same thing 2 camps this year and on ice for 1 goal in 8 total games and nothing, no all star game nada. So yeah, keep skating the pucks D men because at the end of the day defense matters less and less and you have to stand out somehow!!!

How many selfish forwards did you scout?? I\'m sure it was more than the D men. Forwards that would rather take a blind no look shot that either gets blocked of misses the net by 5 feet than pass it back to the wide open defensman, doesn\'t drop back to cover for the D man when he does go in for a shot, can\'t see them when they drop down in the O zone for the back door pass, too busy trying to fly out of the zone looking for a breakaway, can\'t get the puck that final 2 feet out of the zone because they\'re afraid to get hit then blame the D or goalie when they had multiple opportunities to get the puck out of the zone. I could go on and on...