Watch Every Goal Clayton Stoner Scored Last Season

Clayton Stoner has left Minnesota in pursuit of bills.

He’ll winter this coming season in Anaheim with fellow Wild alum Dany Heatley. Stoner’s contract came up in the summer of inflated defensive contracts and he’ll be cashing in on that with the Ducks to the tune of $4.25M per year.

Stoner played decent at times for Minnesota and they will miss his size since they just don’t have much of it at all, but his importance to the team has been inflated because of his size and the Wild’s lack thereof. (Which is a whole other conversation — physicality and the actual importance of size on a team / what cost you can tolerate paying to get physicality.)

Stoner took some dumb penalties in the playoffs and wasn’t able to make much of an impact on the team’s offensive production with a Goals for percentage of 44.2%, second worst among Wild defenseman with only Keith Ballard finishing lower at 41.9%.

That’s what’s overshadowed by many thinking the Wild need a big, bruising defenseman. They could use one, but they also need that player have better possession numbers (46.6% Fenwick for) and offensive production than Stoner did or that physicality is essentially meaningless.

Anyhow. We bid Stoner adieu by watching his one regular season goal, which was actually quite pretty, and his one postseason goal, which was not.

#1 —

03/18/14 vs. New York Islanders

MIN 6 – NYI 0

Concussion-proof breakaway specialist Clayton Stoner notches his first of the year. That’s what the Ducks are paying him $4.25M per year for.

#2 —

05/02/14 vs. Chicago Blackhawks

MIN 2 – CHI 5

That’s a goal. Um. That’s it. Thanks for watching folks.

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