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Sunday Links: The Enigma That is the Stars’ Defense

It’s been mentioned before, but it’s worth mentioning again: the Stars’ defense was weird Friday night against the Calgary Flames.

Greg Pateryn, who has spent the majority of the season in the pressbox, led the team in ice time with 21:32. He did that while having the worst possession stats on the team (roughly 33%) despite having the highest amount of offensive zone stars (about 66%).

Numbers aside though, it’s not as if everything about Pateryn’s game was bad:

On top of that, Pateryn didn’t look that bad according to the eye test.