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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Ah, makes sense. Even if so, I don't think they are in a position to move Hanifin. You can't assume Mackey is ready yet, and none of the other guys are, though Kylington is knocking on the door.
I see the left side as:
Giordano
Hanifin
Valimaki
for this year, and wait to see what happens from there.
Valimaki, and Mackey are exempt, so that buys them the year they need to see where they are. Then next year, you choose who you want to run with, between: Hanifin, Valimaki, Kylington, and Mackey
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The problem with that is it leaves very little cap-space to improve your team elsewhere. Goaltending needs to be improved, as does the right side defence - and that's on top of needing another top level player in the top-9 up front.
Moving Hanifin and trusting Valimaki and Mackey allows you to improve the team elsewhere - places where we don't have people that (in my eyes) should be trusted to step in.