Hanifin is an OK top 4 Dman, but he's been in the league for like what...6 or 7 years now and he's still not a top pair guy. He doesn't produce nearly enough offense either.
He's not a number 1 dman and he's probably never going to be a number 1 dman. If Flames brass thinks he is then we've got big problems.
If anything I think the hope of management is that Valimaki will leap frog Hanifin to take over for Gio as the top pairing LHD and Hanifin can at least continue to be a solid 2nd pairing LHD.
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