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Originally Posted by Jimdon
All the talk about the Flames losing their best defenseman if Gio goes seems like a bit of revisionist history here. The first half of the season Tanev and Hanifin were easily the teams best defenseman and the popular narrative was that Gios poor play was a big reason the team was struggling. He picked it up in the second half, too little too late.
Would the Flames be a factor to winning the cup this year with Gio as opposed to without him? No.
The team being better or worse with or without him shouldn't be worth spending any assets on him if they're still not good enough either way
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Yeah, I don’t think Gio was their best Dman at any point. He was their best offensive Dman over the season, which is an issue in more than one respect.