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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Didn’t he sign Hamrlik too?? I always loved that Hamrlik/Phaneuf pairing and thought it was too short lived unfortunately.
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Yep, and he was also rumored to be looking at Bryan Berard in 2003 out of the scratch and dent bin.
His Kings teams had Drew Doughty, and then ones who won also had Slava Voynov and Jake Muzzin. Voynov was a garbage person, but at one point was a reasonably good offensive defenseman.
So that tells me that Daryl Sutter is somewhat aware of how important it is to have the defenders moving the puck to forwards and offensive contributions from the backend. So that's why I'm a bit surprised the Flames didn't try to add someone with some offensive or puck moving acumen to supplement the loss of Giordano. They either couldn't or they think Hanifin, Valimaki, and Anderson have a lot more to give than I do.