Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings Chris Carson Jersey , Victor Hedman of the Tampa Bay Lightning and P.K. Subban of the Nashville Predators are the finalists for the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s top defenseman.
The winner will be announced June 20 at the NHL Awards shows in Las Vegas.
Doughty, the 2016 winner, led the NHL in total ice time (2,200:31) and average time (26:50) while anchoring a Los Angeles defense that allowed a league-low 203 goals. He had 10 goals and 50 assis
Hedman shared first place among NHL defensemen with a career-high 17 goals Carl Banks Jersey , tied for the second-most in one season by a Lightning blueliner. He also ranked fifth among NHL defensemen with 63 points.
Subban, the 2013 winner with Montreal, anchored a Predators defense that led the NHL in goals (56) and points (206) in 2017-18. He set a career high and shared fourth place among league defensemen with 16 goals. Subban also ranked eighth among defensemen with 59 points.
The Jaguars led the Patriots 20-10 early in the fourth quarter of last year’s AFC Championship Game, but they couldn’t find any more points while Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes to lift New England to another Super Bowl appearance.
Jacksonville had the ball four times after taking that 10-point lead and managed two first downs over those possessions as the game slipped away. Given the way the defense carried the Jags over the course of the season Harry Carson Jersey , that led some to point to a lack of faith in quarterback Blake Bortles as a lead factor in the loss.
Defensive end Calais Campbell sees an area where the defense needs to improve if the team is going to maintain their success.
“We’ve got to be more disciplined,” Campbell said, via Judy Battista of NFL Media. “We’ve got to finish better. As talented as we are and as well as we played, too many times we didn’t finish the way we could have. I’m talking about assignment discipline. Everybody knows the system better Patrick Chung Jersey , they know exactly where they are supposed to be. We can play off each other. If we play that way, with the talent we have, it will be really tough to beat us.”
The Jaguars were tough to beat last year, but there were some other rough patches for the defense over the course of the season. That was particularly true for the run defense and tightening that up would leave opposing offenses with an even harder task as the 2018 season unfolds.