With all of these changes, Danny Marston's new build gets pretty wild. He doesn't have any 20s currently, but he does have a couple of 19s. In general, his stats are going to go way up and this is going to be interesting.

Screening 51
Getting Open 81
Passing 91
Puckhandling 81
Shooting Accuracy 71
Shooting Range 90
Offensive Read 91
Checking 51
Hitting 31
Positioning 61
Stickchecking 51
Shot Blocking 1
Faceoffs 61
Defensive Read 71
Acceleration 81
Agility 91
Balance 71
Speed 91
Stamina 71
Strength 51
Fighting 70
Aggression 80
Bravery 41

Everything except for Shot Blocking goes way up. Shot Blocking is currently a 10, so it goes down. Despite that, Danny's got enough other features within his build that it works out to still be exceptionally decent defensively. Maybe it's just me, but it's got shades of what you'd expect an uncapped STHS build to look like. Offensive power almost maxed out, defensive power less so (especially where hitting is concerned), and then physicals somewhere in-between. The only thing that's wildly different from STHS-style builds and my build intent in general is that Danny's Aggression is suddenly higher than his Shooting Accuracy and all of his defensive stats. I'm picturing him just hammering pucks from center ice or the defensive zone and a little more than 65% on average hit the net front, but otherwise he's like a rodeo bull in a china shop.

Considering the league at large, I think even in an environment where the whole league is changing like this, Danny is still going to come out a bit ahead. Right now he's kind of on the cusp of maybe being a really good player, and he's pretty solid. With almost all of the players in front of him suffering in some ways from their best stats suddenly tanking, I think Danny has an opportunity to leap frog ahead. It'll really depend on how hampered he is by such high Aggression and Fighting stats. If it's just Danny, however, I think it's reasonable to expect his performance to go down because he'll never get out of the penalty box ever.