Stay-at-home defenceman

In ice hockey, a stay-at-home defenceman, also known as defensive defencemen or shutdown defencemen, is a defenceman who plays a very defensive-first game. Because these players are focused on defending rather than attacking, their offensive statistics tend to be on the lower side of average. These players usually play with a more physical style and are often used to neutralize the opposing team's offensive players by landing strong hits and blocking shots.

Stay-at-home defencemen normally are put in penalty kill situations. They are often partnered with offensive-minded defencemen. Effective stay-at-home defensemen typically have high plus/minus ratings.

Current stay-at-home defencemen

• Karl Alzner
• Jonas Brodin
• Brandon Carlo
• Erik Cernak
• Zdeno Chara
• Ian Cole
• Danny DeKeyser
• Mattias Ekholm
• Vladislav Gavrikov
• Ryan Graves
• Andy Greene
• Travis Hamonic
• Niklas Hjalmarsson
• Erik Johnson
• Bogdan Kiselevich
• Oscar Klefbom
• Adam Larsson
• Olli Maatta
• Josh Manson
• Andrew MacWilliam
• Jake McCabe
• Ryan McDonagh
• Marc Methot
• Patrik Nemeth
• Nikita Nesterov
• Dmitry Orlov
• Brett Pesce
• Kris Russell
• Luke Schenn
• Andrej Sekera
• Marc Staal
• Mark Stuart
• Ryan Suter
• Chris Tanev
• Marc-Edouard Vlasic
• Egor Yakovlev
• Artyom Zub

Former stay-at-home defencemen

• Marc Bergevin
• Jeff Beukeboom
• Jay Bouwmeester
• Eric Brewer
• Chris Chelios
• Ken Daneyko
• Daniel Girardi
• Matt Greene
• Adam Foote
• Dan Hamhuis
• Scott Hannan
• Derian Hatcher
• Barret Jackman
• Darius Kasparaitis
• Mike Komisarek
• Rod Langway
• Kevin Lowe
• Craig Ludwig
• Brad Marsh
• Brad McCrimmon
• Willie Mitchell
• Mattias Norstrom
• Mattias Ohlund
• Brooks Orpik
• Chris Phillips
• Adam Pardy
• Mike Rathje
• Robyn Regehr
• Ulf Samuelsson
• Serge Savard
• Rob Scuderi
• Scott Stevens

See also

• Defence player