Have we gone too far in worrying about handedness in defencemen?
At the World Championships in Denmark this year, the Russian team had only one right-shooting defender. Worse than that, they had only one right-shooting forward, and he was hurt at the start of the tournament. This led to an interesting situation where the one and only righty got used to excess on the power play, and he had to do two things: pull the trigger on the point shots and roll in and play from a little deeper in.
This all helped make him the fourth-highest scoring defender at the tournament with eight assists in 8 games.