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Originally Posted by Five-hole
I think that "had to go to Europe to sign a 27 year old who we hope can fill a spot" is a tad overstated. And I don't think Nakladal and who we should take In the draft are at all correlated. We added a sought-after commodity for free. Due to injury our lack of NHL-ready defencemen was exposed, but that's not who we're drafting.
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Our defence needed upgrading before we ran into injury problems and although we have some okay prospects there isn't one that promises to be a franchise defenceman. Our signing of Nakladal and that there were other suitors shows that there is a shortage of defencemen, so the possibilities of acquiring a top one is a long shot other than developing our own.