{"id":735329,"date":"2017-08-30T22:32:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=735329"},"modified":"2017-08-30T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T02:32:47","slug":"drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Doughty Ranked No. 3 in #NHLTopPlayers &#8216;Top 20 Defensemen&#8217; List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL Network experts chose the top 20 defensemen, and the LA Kings Norris Trophy-winning defenseman made it in the Top 3 ahead of the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n<p>Via LAKings.com:<\/p>\n<p>Doughty has anchored the Kings blueline since he was drafted No. 2 overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he&#8217;s racked up an impressive resume, including being named the 2016 Norris Trophy winner, twice winning the Stanley Cup (2012, 2014), two Gold Medals with the Canadian Olympian team (2010, 2014), and a Gold Medal with Team Canada at the 2016 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Doughty has also scored 92 goals and added 270 assists in his 688 NHL career games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHL Network experts chose the top 20 defensemen, and the LA Kings Norris Trophy-winning defenseman made it in the Top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":735335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639888,1],"tags":[3828584],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drew Doughty Ranked No. 3 in #NHLTopPlayers &#039;Top 20 Defensemen&#039; List - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drew Doughty Ranked No. 3 in #NHLTopPlayers &#8216;Top 20 Defensemen&#8217; List\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-31T02:32:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/665462130.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Drew Doughty Ranked No. 3 in #NHLTopPlayers &#8216;Top 20 Defensemen&#8217; List\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-31T02:32:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-08-31T02:32:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list\/\"},\"wordCount\":107,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/drew-doughty-ranked-no-3-in-nhltopplayers-top-20-defensemen-list\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/665462130.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Drew Doughty\"],\"articleSection\":[\"L.A. 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