Colin White and his Crappy D

Why is he a bad defenseman?

No where is there any proof of him being bad.

Just pointing out he’s only a +3, way down from his +18 last year. I do believe Mottau, his usual partner, is pulling that down a bit, though I’d say that pair is the problem, because they’re both slow defensive D-men who have no chemistry whatsoever. Hopefully we can bring someone in who will caused a shift in the D lines. Bottom line: White and Mottau need to be split up.

White’s a respectable defenseman. It’s mainly Mike Mottau’s gaffes that make White look bad if you ask me, as White’s his partner. That Atlanta game earlier this season where the Devils went nuts and threw around 25 shots in the first and the Devils let 3 goals on 6 shots, the Mottau-White pairing was on the ice mainly for it. In the 2nd when Lemaire switched up the Pairings and paired White with another defenseman (forgot who he was paired with), the Defense started to play better. You can’t blame White for not being a good defenseman, many teams would enjoy having a big shutdown like him.

White plays a solid game defensively; just takes a hair too many penalties on takeaways, but that’s from loss of speed. He makes up for lack of speed with angles to the puck-carrier and positioning.

As much as I think Colin White doesnt play up to his contract any longer and his no trade clause is crippling, he is not our problem right now. The weak link is definitely Mike Mottau, and I’m praying that when Paul Martin is back Mottau is the seventh guy.

I hated the Havelid trade last year because I thought Salmela could be a good player for us, and I’m glad to have him back, but another puck moving defenseman would be a help before the deadline.

Have to agree with most here. White is not the problem.

White is 3rd on the team in +/-. He has never been a scoring D man, and that is not what is expected of him.

The team is 2nd in the league in GA avg, even with the poor performance in the last 15 games. How crappy can he be when he is 4th among defenseman in TOI and the D overall is at worst a solid defense. If he were so crappy, wouldn’t the team defense be a whole lot worse?

And one last point, couple of games back, who stepped in when the other team was going after Parise and fought? White. This despite the fact that he knows that one punch to the face could end his career. Good character guy and I would like to see him back. And I am a guy who early in his career did not care for him much because I thought he took alot of dumb penalties.

Not a big fan of White or Mottau. White needs to be paired with a mobile defenseman, Mike Mottau isn’t that guy. White knows how to play in his limitations. Mottau apparently doesn’t know how to do that and mistakes happen because of it.

I am hoping that with the return of Martin and the crop of able defenders we have maturing the minors, we can show Mottau the door. I would much rather have a youngster playing in his spot learning the game then have Mottau in there. He his a wasted roster spot, IMHO.