So an interesting question to pose would be, which of the 2 defenseman has a higher ceiling?
There’s a few ways to approach this because I believe they both can be great in this league for a long time. Ekblad is poised to break out this season while Matheson continues to show his great skating and puck moving abilities.
Ekblad is coming off an especially tough 2016-17 campaign in which he played a career low 68 games. March 11th he would sustain another concussion, against the Tampa Bay Lightning causing him to miss 14 games.