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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Personally the wrong time to be moving a d-man IMO.
No d-men look good when every mistake they make ends up in the back of their own net. The defense has not been good as last year, but goaltending is just magnifying it at this point.
The 5v5 on-ice save percentage for our Top 6 this year:
Giordano: .862
Russell: .867
Brodie: .868
Wideman: .869
Hamilton: .900
Engelland: .950
Almost correlates directly to those saying Engelland looks so much better this year, and how much worse Gio, Russell, Brodie, and Wideman are looking this year (For D-Men they are have the 3rd, 4th, 6th, & 7th lowest on ice save percentage in the league this year.
Compare that to last year for our top 6:
Engelland: .910
Diaz: .920
Giordano: .925
Wideman: .926
Russell: .929
Brodie: .931
The need to hope goaltending improves and then hopefully that at least improves Wideman and Russell's counting stats to the point where they have some value at the trade deadline.
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Flames have $26.15M tied up in 7 Dmen this year and $28.88 tied up in 6 of those guys next year. They also have $8.9 tied up in goaltending this year. At least with the goalies all are free agents next summer with the cheapest being a RFA. That blueline needs to be changed and the only 3 that should be kept are the obvious big 3