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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Right?
Take Brodie out next year and we still have
Giordano
Hanifin
Hamonic
Andersson
Valimaki
Kylington
Stone
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You named exactly one right D who belongs on an NHL top four, and he is also an injury-prone, pending UFA himself who still isn't a top pair guy because he's an offensive black hole. And he's also the only player Hanifin has had any success with.
That's not a very balanced blue line other than peoples' hopes and prayers that Hanifin or Valimaki can handle the huge uptick in competition quality and play their OFF-side in a top pair capacity, or their delusions that Hanifin-Andersson is an actual NHL second pair (as if they haven't watched this entire season where those two together are simply a mess together).
Yeah, if that's our blue line going into next season we may as well wave a white flag, it's Oilers-esque optimism.