While he's been a whipping boy for Toronto Maple Leafs fans given the team's recent history, the first thing we should clear up here is that Dion Phaneuf was still very much a fantasy-relevant commodity before being traded to the Ottawa Senators.
Currently on the ESPN Player Rater, which measures each NHL player's value through only the statistics they've accumulated, Phaneuf ranks 21st among all defensemen for the season. He's just behind Mark Giordano and ahead of Tyson Barrie, John Carlson and Torey Krug -- just to name a few.