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Originally Posted by btimbit
I really couldn't disagree more. Giordano was a fair deal and it's up next year anyway. Hanifin is paid in line with 2nd pair dmen. Ryan is paid as a 3rd liner and his contract is up in a matter of weeks so seems like a non-issue.
Honestly, the only one I don't like is Backlund
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Hanifin is the 60th highest paid dman in the league, making him a top 2 dman (barely). There are probably at least 80 dmen in the league that are objectively better than him.
Just in the North I would take Weber, Chariot, Petry, Brodie, Reilly, Muzzin, Morrissey, Nurse, Barrie, Chabot, Hughes and Edler over him in a straight hockey transaction and the defence in the North sucks compared to the rest of the league.
Backlund is a bad contract, I missed that one. Paid at a level where he should be a first liner, is a 2nd line player. The cap situation is not his biggest flaw though, his biggest flaw by far is using draft picks in trades to fill in holes. Trading a first and two seconds for Hamonic and signing ostensibly a top 4 dman in Stone in the same off-season. Ends up being a 1st, two 2nds, a 3rd and a 5th for two pretty mediocre dmen. The picks that were burned will be what fans look back at in 2-4 years and wonder what if.