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Originally Posted by Anduril
Valimaki and Kylington are probably going to have solid careers going forward but in a 7 game series where the opposing coach can game plan around them specifically, take advantages of home ice and force them against their best players... It's a lot easier to see management's hesitance to throw these guys out there when they've been keeping their head above water against the weaker competition as it is.
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If we're being intellectually honest, Rasmus Andersson is going to be more "gameplanned" against than either Kylington or Valimaki, whose weaknesses are far more overstated than Andersson's who tends to get exploited often. And between Andersson, Stone and Prout, we already have a saturation of #3RD.
Adding a Dman makes zero sense at this juncture. Especially when teams have won the cup rolling exclusively their top four Dmen. Look at the 2015 Blackhawks playoff ice time:
Keith - 31:07
Seabrook - 26:17
Hjalmarsson - 26:02
Oduya - 24:45
In all likelyhood if one of our top three D (Giordano, Brodie, Hamonic) gets hurt, we are probably screwed either way. If Hanifin gets hurt, no desperation deadline acquisition is going to have a better skillset and toolset to replace him than Oliver Kylington.