Option 2:

As a center, the defense of my team is vital to my ability to be confident when playing as well as having the time and space available to me to play the game with some amount of freedom. I want the defense to be reliable, to be able to make a simple pass, not to overthink things, but to look for the first open player that isn't a risk and move the puck, while also being an option for me when I need to find someone to move the puck to. While it might sounds like passing the puck around without much direction, just for the sake of it, just moving the puck around safely is a really hard thing to do when you have another team trying to prevent it constantly. If a player on my blueline can trusted with that one thing, I don't really care about much else. They will chip in offensively through that one playstyle anyways, and will let us not work too hard to try to find some creative way to get the puck up the ice. Get open, and get the puck moving. Really simple.