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So, Sbisa's abysmal play so far has to ask a question, is the number 5 cursed? Last players to wear the number:

Bryan Allen: Very solid defensive defenseman, not really worth being taken 4th overall in his draft year. (though 98 was a fairly weak draft.) Otherwise good player.

Lukas Kraijcek: Came back in the Lu trade... Not exactly a stud defenseman... Or anything close....

Ossi Vaananen: Haha who remembers him? Played like, 4 games?

Cristian Ehrhoff: Probably the best D to wear the number. Quarter backed our PP to first in the league. Bolts after 2 seasons.

Marc-Andre Gragnani: Like Vaananen, who remembers him? Came back in the Coho/Kass deal. So bad that he didn't get a QO at the end of the season.

Jason Garrison: Brought in to be our new Salo. Really was not spectacular, and our PP was abysmal with him on it. Nobody was sad to see him go really.

Luca Sbisa: Only a handful of games played, looked abysmal in both the preseason and the regular season so far. We'll see how he progresses.

The number 5 seems to be cursed with bad players or luck.... Ehrhoff wore the number proudly, but ditched us for cash and a "Stanley Cup" in Buffalo. Really, we haven't had a reliable number 5 Since Bryan Allen.

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Ummm no.

Garrison wasn't bad at all. Between Allen, Garrison and Ehrhoff that is a pretty long stretch of solid dmen wearing that number.

Sbisa is new to the team, cut him some slack. He was a +2 going into this game, and all of our D have had stretches of looking terrible this year.

On a happy note after Edler looked like he was going to repeat least season with his -2 performance in the first game but now has 4 points, +4, 16 shots over his last 6. 10 hits and 13 blocks on the season as well.

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Marc-Andre Gragnani: Like Vaananen, who remembers him? Came back in the Coho/Kass deal. So bad that he didn't get a QO at the end of the season.

He wasn't in the coho/Kass deal.

it was sultzer for gragnani straight up.

Lame thread BTW.

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