For his career, he has given up a 46.4% effective field goal percentage as the contesting defender, third best among those to contest 2,000 shots in that span, behind only Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert. This season, per GeniusIQ, Holmgren has held opponents to 39.9% as the contesting defender, best among the 42 players to contest at least 250 shots. “He’s always got all that,” Daigneault said. “But then there’s still a ceiling for him because he’s such a young player. He has only played [131] games in his career. So we view him as a guy that is developmental still. And it sounds weird to say that because usually that is associated with guys who haven’t accomplished what he has.”
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