Stay-at-home defenceman
In ice hockey, a stay-at-home defenceman, also known as defensive defencemen or shutdown defencemen, is a defenceman who plays a very defensive-first game. Because these players are focused on defending rather than attacking, their offensive statistics tend to be on the lower side of average. These players usually play with a more physical style and are often used to neutralize the opposing team's offensive players by landing strong hits and blocking shots.
Stay-at-home defencemen normally are put in penalty kill situations. They are often partnered with offensive-minded defencemen. Effective stay-at-home defensemen typically have high plus/minus ratings.
Current stay-at-home defencemen
- Karl Alzner
- Jonas Brodin
- Brandon Carlo
- Erik Cernak
- Zdeno Chara
- Ian Cole
- Danny DeKeyser
- Brian Dumoulin
- Joel Edmundson
- Mattias Ekholm
- Vladislav Gavrikov
- Ryan Graves
- Andy Greene
- Carl Gunnarsson
- Travis Hamonic
- Niklas Hjalmarsson
- Erik Johnson
- Bogdan Kiselevich
- Oscar Klefbom
- Adam Larsson
- Ryan Lindgren
- Olli Maatta
- Josh Manson
- Andrew MacWilliam
- Jake McCabe
- Ryan McDonagh
- Patrik Nemeth
- Nikita Nesterov
- Jamie Oleksiak
- Dmitry Orlov
- Brett Pesce
- Juuso Riikola
- Kris Russell
- David Savard
- Luke Schenn
- Andrej Sekera
- Jonas Siegenthaler
- Jaccob Slavin
- Marc Staal
- Ryan Suter
- Christopher Tanev
- Marc-Edouard Vlasic
- Egor Yakovlev
- Nikita Zaitsev
- Artyom Zub
Former stay-at-home defencemen
Bold: Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Marc Bergevin
- Jeff Beukeboom
- Jay Bouwmeester
- Eric Brewer
- Chris Chelios[1]
- Ken Daneyko
- Daniel Girardi
- Matt Greene
- Adam Foote
- Ron Hainsey
- Dan Hamhuis
- Scott Hannan
- Derian Hatcher
- Barret Jackman
- Darius Kasparaitis
- Mike Komisarek
- Rod Langway
- Kevin Lowe
- Craig Ludwig
- Brad Marsh
- Brad McCrimmon
- Marc Methot
- Willie Mitchell
- Mattias Norstrom
- Mattias Ohlund
- Brooks Orpik
- Chris Phillips
- Adam Pardy
- Mike Rathje
- Robyn Regehr
- Ulf Samuelsson
- Serge Savard
- Rob Scuderi
- Scott Stevens
- Mark Stuart
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