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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
This is just inaccurate. Your evaluation of defensemen baffles me on a regular basis.
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At least Chris Tanev was good for a while before the Flames signed him (and had a very good first year).
Ristolainen has never helped the Sabres in his own end. He made Buffalo substantially worse in basically every quantifiable defensive way. He has traits that GMs covet — size, shot, physicality — but he fails by the numbers and the eye test. His tenure in Buffalo was nothing but a disaster.
Numbers aside, I have been impressed watching Ristolainen maybe once ever. He is a brutally uncoordinated defenseman who constantly makes mistakes and is vastly overpaid.