FEDs First week of the new year!

Here's our first week of FEDs (Friday Evening Defensemen) of the new year!

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

New: James Wisniewski, Matt Carle, Dennis Seidenberg, Brian Rafalski
Out: Andrej Meszaros, Kurtis Foster, Jay Bouwmeester, Victor Hedman

Biggest Movers: Christian Ehrhoff(↑12), Shea Weber(↑11),, Kevin Bieksa(↑11), Alex Goligoski(↑10), Toni Lydman(↑8), P.K. Subban(↑6), John Carlson(↓6), Erik Karlsson(↓8), Joni Pitkanen(↓8), Deryk Engelland(↓9), Brent Seabrook(↓9)

Hot 5:
1. Shea Weber: If you look at those rankings, you see Weber jumped up 11 spots! Why? Four straight MONSTER GAMES! 2 goals, six assists, +9 and 11 SOG during that span
2. Ryan Suter: Suter's been mooching off Weber's success the past few games with 4 assists and a +8 over the same span
3. James Wisniewski: Welcome to Montreal, does 2 goals, 3 assists, +2 and 10 SOG sound nice since he went over?
4. Kris Letang: Past five games - 5A, +5, 16 SOG, and that includes a monster game against the Lightning
5. Christian Ehrhoff: Very similar numbers to Letang in the past five games except he only has 14 SOG, but 6 PIM.


Cold 5: 
1. Tyler Myers: He had been accumulating a lot of assists before missing a few games, but since he came back, -3, 3 SOG. He's a streaky guy and considering he almost doubled his point total in December alone, he's not been very good all year.
2. Michael Del Zotto: Just got sent down to the AHL, dump him
3. Michal Rozsival: What is it with Rangers defensemen? Rosival has had a decent +/-, but has only four points in his last ten games, not to mention, he's not even shooting the puck this season, only 24 SOG. Time to get a new guy
4. Kurtis Foster: no points since mid December and was scratched last night... clearly he's going in the wrong direction...
5. Brent Seabrook: he's taken a nosedive in the rankings posting five straight games with a -1 and only 1 assist over that span. While he's getting minutes, he's not taking the best advantage of them. Stash him on the bench until he starts contributing to something, even a postive +/- would be good at this point.


Guys flying under the radar: Andrew MacDonald, Joe Corvo, Dan Hamhuis, Francois Beauchemin, Jamie McBain