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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
Don't get why the Flames would trade J-Bo just to dump cap space. Without him the defense looks slow and deficient in their own end, and it's not like the Flames are oozing with top 4 defensemen to replace him.
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That's only partially true.
Whatever various shortcomings they may have, Smith, Gio, Butler, Brodie all skate extremely well. Wideman isn't the fleetest, but he's hardly slow. Mobility on the back end is the least of our worries, which is not to say the team must move Bouwmeester at any cost, either.