Jaroslav Modry. Aaron Rome. Adam Pardy. Jeff Woywitka. Sergei Gonchar. Mark Fistric. Doug Janik. Trevor Daley. Alex Goligoski. Phillip Larsen.
This barrage contains just a few of the more frequent names to occupy the bottom pairing of the Dallas Stars defense over the past decade or so. I can say for myself that I reacted to all these names fairly similarly, and you probably know what I mean. There have been many more names than these, of course, but the David Schlemkos and Ivan Vishnevskiys of the world are hardly worth factoring into this discussion, because we are talking about the Stars' best third-pairing defensemen to hold down the fort in some time: Jordie Benn.