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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

Here's my question about Seattle: why do they draft Lucic?

Let's look at both our protection options:

7F 3D

Johnny, Monahan, Lindholm, Tkachuk, Backlund, Dube, Bennett (whoever)

Gio, Hanifin, Valimaki

4F 4D

Johnny Sean Tkachuk Lindholm
Gio Valimaki Hanifin Andersson

There's no way to keep all our defensemen. One of Kylington/Andersson/Hanifin is gone. It doesn't matter if Lucic is 'unprotected' - he'll be 34-35 by then, still have his stupid contract, and nobody is taking him when they can have Oliver Kylington or Rasmus Andersson instead.

All Lucic has to do is agree to waive for the draft so it doesn't force us to expose another forward. If he's agreed to that, he's alright in my book - he does bring more of what we need than Neal.

They don't.