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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
So in other words he's trending to be just like Gio, Brody, and Dougie. This organization is so all or nothing. Solid wingers and no centers for almost a decade to solid centers, offensive defensemen and no wingers or shutdown defensemen.
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Having a bigger shut down defenseman is defintely useful, but you are overstating the concept of a balanced blue line, especially since none of Dougie, Gio, or Brodie are one-dimensional.
Keith
Seabrook
Campbell/Oduya
Leddy/Byfuglien
were all puck movers. Only Hjalmarssson fit the Stay-at-Home mold.
Doughty
Muzzin
Voynov
Martinez
were all puck movers. Only Willie Mitchell truly fit the Stay-At-Home mold among their minute munchers (Regehr did too, but by his Kings days was bottom pair, easily acquired) Even last year,
Letang
Dumoulin
Matta
Daley
Schultz
were all puck movers. Only Ben Lovejoy fit the Stay-At-Home mold. Also Bottom Pair.
With Brandon Hickey, Tyler Wotherspoon, and Adam Ollas-Mattsson, I am confident we have one useful stay at home type in the making. It'd be nice to have prime Chris Pronger or Zdeno Chara, said EVERY team in the league.