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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Great signing, too bad it's to a western rival.
I wonder if Treliving kicked the tires on that one.
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It is a year too early.... Next year The Flames will be looking at spending more for Russell so a cheaper short term Erhoff would work. But if Erhoff has a rebound season (like Raymond had in Toronto when he had his cheap 1 year deal) he will likely be too expensive for the Flames.... like Raymond turned out to be.
This year for the Kings Erhoff is basically a Regehr fill in as far as Ice time goes..... not a lot of depth on D for the Kings before signing Erhoff.
Their #5 is Greene After (signing Erhoff) who I would put roughly in the Engelland category.
What a depth difference one quality D-man makes .... The Kings lose Voynov and are scrambling to have 4 NHL d-men plus Greene. The Flames get Hamilton and all the sudden they have a guy on the 5/6 pair that can play top minutes against top lines.