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Originally Posted by Red
Not directed at you specifically, but do people on this board need to be reminded that Gio is 37 years old? And he looked his age recently.
OEL would be here replace him. Otherwise you are counting on Hanifin who is very inconsistent or Valimaki who is always injured. Or drafting/aquiring another top D that can step right in. So much for the left D depth.
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Again, even a declining Gio for two years at $6.75 >>> 7 years of Ekman-Larsson at $8.25 with a NMC to boot. No one doubts Gio is slowing down. But people wrote Chara off a few years ago and he played usefully for a long time afterward.
A stud 29 year old? Sure. But OEL isn’t. Gio had one more point in 6 less games as a matter of fact. And their PO performances were comparable too.