Friday Evening Defensemen (FEDs)

So... yesterday were the forwards, this evening is the Defensemen. I still am working on figuring this out, but for now, I'll just have my power rankings and hot and cold players.

Top 50 Defensemen
1.   Dustin Byfuglien
2.   Kris Letang
3.   John-Michael Liles
4.   Zdeno Chara
5.   Dan Boyle
6.   Steve Montador
7.   Ryan Whitney
8.   Mark Giordano
9.   Stephane Robidas
10. Keith Yandle
11. Brent Burns
12. Shea Weber
13. Mike Green
14. Nicklas Lidstrom
15. John Carlson
16. Bryan McCabe
17. Jack Johnson
18. Alexander Edler
19. Lubomir Visnovsky
20. Tobias Enstrom
21. P.K. Subban
22. Chris Pronger
23. Joni Pitkanen
24. Roman Hamrlik
25. Christian Ehrhoff
26. Erik Karlsson
27. Deryk Engelland
28. Alex Goligoski
29. Eric Brewer
30. Matt Carkner
31. Dan Girardi
32. Jordan Leopold
33. Marc Staal
34. Theo Peckham
35. Duncan Keith
36. Drew Doughty
37. Kimmo Timonen
38. Niklas Kronwall
39. Andrew Ference
40. Victor Hedman
41. Ed Jovanovski
42. Brent Seabrook
43. Jay Bouwmeester
44. Kevin Bieksa
45. Toni Lydman
46. Alex Pietrangelo
47. John Erskine
48. Andrej Meszaros
49. Cody Franson
50. Matt Carle

There is a formula as to how i derived these rankings, but the formula is also different that what I used for forwards since defensemen are not as likely to score points. Again, the five items I calculated were G, A, +/-, PIM, and SOG.

5 Hottest Defensemen
1. Dan Boyle - 4 game point streak with 2 goals and three assists, as well as a +2 and 14 SOG makes him a hot commodity
2. Stephane Robidas - 7 assists in the last 6 games, including a 3 assist night against Montreal and a +6 over that span
3. Brian Rafalski - 5 game point streak with 8 assists during that span, has yet to score a goal this season, but is averaging almost an assist per game.
4. Tobias Enstrom - had a monster 4 point night against Toronto with 2 goals and 2 assists and had a span of 6 pts over three games, including the Toronto game, I'm sure we'd all like to see more consistency out of him.
5. Dustin Byfuglien - Buff's got the stuff, a goal in each of the pat two games and 7 points in the last 7 games, Buff is always going to have the stuff.

5 Coldest Defensemen
1. Michael Del Zotto - past five games, 1 A, +2, and 4 SOG, not to mention he was scratched against Ottawa and missed the game against Tampa with a stomach ailment, he's not really performing well at all this year...
2. Andy Greene - in what can only be described as a miserable year for the Devils, Andy Greene's +/- is taking a beating with a -23 this season. Not only that, he's had a -5 in the past four games and has only posted a positive once since thanksgiving.. speaking of which... he hasn't scored since then either...
3. Matt Carle - while he's not a bad player, ever since Pronger went down, he hasn't been the same defensively with the increased workload, especially last night against Florida
4. Brad Stuart - four straight games with a negative +/- says it all...
5. Sergei Gonchar - the Pittsburgh Power Play hasn't been the same since he left and his play hasn't been the same since he left. He's got a brutal +/- this season and has two assists this month with nothing but 0's or negatives in the +/-

I guess that's it for now, more to come next week as I figure out what I'm going to do with all these numbers...