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Originally Posted by Rising_Oil_Prices
He's not awful. He's a good defenseman, who can, and likely will improve play in his own end through the next few years, as well as every other part of his game. If he doesn't well then yeah, with all things being equal, I would concede its a poor contract.
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This is nice to wish for BUT defencemen need help in their own zone they can't do it on their own. So until they take McDavid, Driasatl and Barry into the defensive zone and introduce them to the rest of the players on the team his stats are UNLIKELY to get better.