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Originally Posted by SeanCharles
Gio
Hanifin
Valimaki
Nesterov
Mackey
Kylington
Lerby
Poolman
Kuznetzov
Poirier
Hard to argue.
I guess the hope would be that Valimaki and Mackey develop into top 4 dmen.
I think it’s pretty safe to assume Valimaki will..
Valimaki-Andersson
Mackey-Tanev
Gio-Nesterov
Kylington
Lerby-Kinnvall
Poolman-Yelesin
It helps that both Mackey and Lerby, by all accounts, looked solid in camp. Nesterov coming out of nowhere is a boost and it’s likely we can retain him.
Trading a LD for a RW seems like a logical choice if the expansion draft wasn’t looming.
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I also find so far that ward hasnt been afraid to put vslimski and nesterov out against top players. They seemed to be on the ice against Tavares line alot the other night. They both are on the pk 2nd unit. Rasmus getting a ton of pp time but right now hanifin is getting very little pp or pk time. Valimaki and nesterov are being trusted in key situations every bit as much as hanifin.
Hanifin does lead the team in plus minus but seeing how Vancouver d is playing this year this could be a chris tanev thing
Flame very easily could trade hanifin and not miss him that much