An argument against signing Hall is the expansion draft, because adding him means you have 9 forwards to protect (TH, JG, SM, EL, MT, MB, AM, SB, DD)
Obviously, you would want to trade one of the forwards out, but if you don't, you would have to expose 2 of those players. So that puts some pressure on getting trades done.
It isn't a huge deal - you're going to have to expose one of them anyway, and you only lose one. But if Bennett, Mangiapane and Dube all progress, then you are going to lose a pretty good player.
However, if they do, then you have even more trade chips.
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