Part 2 in a series
Brian Dumoulin's game -- or, more to the point, his contribution to the Penguins' success in recent seasons -- is not easily measured by statistics.
Not the most popular ones, anyway.
He is a defenseman whose game is built on a foundation of solid play in his own end. Dumoulin can -- and does -- occasionally get involved in the offense, and generally is fairly comfortable and effective when he decides to, but he has ascended to a spot on the Penguins' No. 1 pairing primarily because of his work in his own end.