As a defenseman, pretty much your whole job is helping out the goalie, though occasionally you get to do a cool thing on offense too, I guess. To help out my goalie, I plan to not even let the shots happen. Yeah blocking shots is cool, but it's even cooler if you can just prevent the shot from ever coming off the attacking skater's stick in the first place. You can do this a couple ways. The first is gonna be having a really nasty poke check. A good poke check goes a long way in relieving attackers of the puck before they get a shot off. It's probably one of the most fun plays in hockey to watch if you ask me. Next you can just intercept passes between them. I love when a player goes all out to get in the passing lanes and wreak havoc on an offense. This one has the added benefit of potentially starting an odd man rush the other way if you do it right. Finally you can just hit the fucker. That's a great way to get the crowd going, disrupt any scoring chances, and make a player think twice before they rush my goalie again in the future. While perhaps the most fun, it also comes with possibly the highest risk of penalties, as there are quite a few I can think of that are related to punishing hits and they usually leave you in the box longer...