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Old 06-30-2020, 11:25 AM   #556
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Originally Posted by Textcritic View Post
How likely is that?

In my opinion, it's a big risk banking on any player to be playing at a high level when he is 40-years-old. Joe Thornton just played out his 40-year-old season, and he looks like he might be done. Bear in mind that while Giordano will be 37-yeats-old at the time of the expansion draft he will be entering the 2021 season at 38. As good as Giordano is today I am still thinking long and hard about protecting him in expansion.

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Agreed.

If the only dmen they have to protect are Gio/Andersson/Hanifin then yeah, protect him. But if they add another good young top 4 D and give up assets to acquire him, it makes no sense to protect Gio over the new acquisition.
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