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Originally Posted by 868904
I'd really like to see turnover stats for Wideman compared to Wotherspoon an d Nakladal. Visually, it seems like Spoon and Nak make much less turnivers and mistakes than Wideman.
However I think your argument is a bit flawed. Most aren't talking about replacing Wideman with young dmen who aren't ready (say Kulak, Kylington, Andersson), people are talking about replacing Wideman with Jolipakka (a guy with 100 NHL games), Nakadal (a guy who is closing on 30 years old), and Wotherspoon (a prospect who has 3 seasons in the Ahl and will be waiver eligible soon).
I agree with what you are saying regarding the masses' desire to replace the old vet with the shiny new toy but I think In the case of Wideman, there is good reason to make the change because in summary 1) Wideman has never been good defensively, 2) there are 3 guys ahead of him who are equal or better offensively, 3) there are 3 younger, bigger, and cheaper guys who are at least on par defensively to Wideman.
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Agree.
To re-iterate, the cap space is the attractive thing to me. Even at 2.6m retained that money could help upgrade RW. Could be the difference in landing a quality goalie and a reclaimation project.
I also don't want to lose Wotherspoon to waivers. I think he's eligible next fall, but not sure.