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Originally Posted by Jore
He isn't dynamic enough for me for the top 4 role he's been given. He doesn't play with courage or intensity like Kylington, Andersson, and Valimaki all have this year. All that high end skating ability of his has not manifested in either offensive or defensive aggressiveness that I've seen.
Comparing players to bouwmeester has become a meme but he's probably the most bouwmeester-like defender on the flames since bouw left.
If he has high value I'd rather they leverage that value to improve the forward group. There's only so much LHD time to go around with our other promising defenders rising.
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There is so much wrong with this post I am not sure where to begin. Hanifin is nothing like Bouwmeester, he lays way more hits. Even funnier is Dougie Hamilton was way more like Bouw, he even said at his draft year he patterned his game after him. We have not seen enough of Valimaki or Kylington to remotely say they play with more intensity than Hanifin. I seriously have no idea what the hell you were watching this year. Hanifin is a young stud D who has tremendous upside and has played an incredible amount of minutes for such a young D man.