It's tough to quantify how encouraging something is. If it were easy, then scouting would be much simpler a process. However, as I get through this article, it will become apparent that this may no longer be about their future. In most cases, the future of these young defencemen should have arrived already. They have not. In this article I will show that Greene and Larsson do everything difficult, and yet Severson and Moore have appeared average, and Gelinas and Merrill have appeared to not belong in the NHL.
Larsson and Greene Do All the Hard Things
First we will take a look at how they are used at even strength.