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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
Yandle would be an ok add, but he is nothing special. He has to be sheltered immensely to be effective and the Flames already have to do that with Russell and Wideman.
Add him if you can for a reasonable price, but he isn't much more than a number 4 Dman on a decent team.
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Not really sure how playing 24 minutes a night allows a player to be "sheltered immensely".
That is a really bad team right now and i think more than a few of those guys will have a re-birth if sent to a new setting. Yandle has some deficiencies in his game, no question, but he is an upgrade on every Dman in calgary save for Brodie and Gio.
He fits in with the whole "great skating, puck moving, offensive instinct" dman narrative that the Flames seem to be leaning to as a strategy. Offense starts from the backend on this team more than any team in the NHL IMO.