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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I appreciate your defense of the guy and I agree he played well much of last year. But let's not confuse him with a top defenseman in the league. And for a guy who should be a PP specialist theFlames have never had a great PP with him.
Regardless of who signed them, there are not many good UFA signings on this team. Hudler is the exception. I suspect other teams look this way too, so really points to how important it it to build from within.
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Well, he is paid about half what a top defenseman gets, so who is confusing him with one? The expectations of him to score like he did last year, but defend at a top level as well, are completely unrealistic. If he did that, he would be winning Norris trophies.
Defensemen who put up points get paid. Right shot defensemen get paid more than Left shot defensemen. Put those two things together and he isn't overpaid by much.