Friday Evening Defensemen - Week 8

I typed up the rankings after I finished the goalie rankings, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to put in this piece up top. I spent today experimenting with the goalie ranking a bit, anyways, here's some projection numbers I pulled out:

Jason Garrison - 31 goals (proj)
Erik Karlsson and Brian Campbell - 66 assists (proj)
Brian Campbell - 74 points (proj)
Theo Peckham - 172 PIMs (proj)
Dustin Byfuglien - 301 Shots on goal (proj)
Jason Garrison - 16 PPG (proj)
Brian Campbell - 43 PPA (proj)

Anyways... to the rankings...



Defenseman Rankings
1.   Zdeno Chara
2.   Dustin Byfuglien (↑3)
3.   Shea Weber
4.   Sheldon Souray (↓2)
5.   Ryan Suter (↑6)
6.   Erik Karlsson (↓2)
7.   Nicklas Lidstrom (↓1)
8.   Dan Boyle (↓1)
9.   Dion Phaneuf (↑3)
10. Kris Letang (↓2)
11. Jason Garrison (↑3)
12. Alexander Edler (↓2)
13. Brian Campbell (↑2)
14. Marc-Andre Bergeron (↓1)
15. Keith Yandle (↑6)
16. P.K. Subban (↑1)
17. Dennis Wideman (↓1)
18. Kyle Quincey (↓9)
19. Niklas Kronwall (↑9)
20. Ian White (↑4)
21. Sergei Gonchar (↑6)
22. Sami Salo
23. Dmitry Kulikov (↓3)
24. John Carlson (↑6)
25. Dan Hamhuis (↑4)
26. John-Michael Liles (↓1)
27. Christian Ehrhoff (↑7)
28. Kevin Shattenkirk (↓10)
29. Mark Streit (↓10)
30. Mark Giordano (↑1)
31. Alex Pietrangelo (↑5)
32. Duncan Keith (↓6)
33. Kevin Bieksa (↓10)
34. Marc-Edouard Vlasic (↑11)
35. Brent Burns (↓2)
36. Jack Johnson (↓13)
37. Shane O'Brien (↑13)
38. Matt Carle (↑2)
39. Jay Harrison (↑8)
40. Yannick Weber (↓2)
41. Ryan Wilson (↑5)
42. Grant Clitsome (↑10)
43. Joe Corvo (↓1)
44. Chris Pronger (↓3)
45. Ryan McDonagh (↓6)
46. Kimmo Timonen (↓9)
47. Johnny Boychuk (↓12)
48. Fedor Tyutin (NEW)
49. Nick Leddy (↓1)
50. Oliver Ekman-Larsson (NEW)
Out: Dan Girardi, Steve Montador

 And then I wanted to compare the stuff I said above to previous years...

Just for comparison to previous seasons:
Last season, only Dustin Byfuglien reached the 20 goal plateau. The year before that (the 2009-2010 season) no one reached 20. During the monster season of 2008-2009, Mike Green hit 31 goals and Sheldon Souray and Shea Weber both got 23 while no one else got above 20... and I've found the source for my next article, look out for it later tonight!