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Originally Posted by Vinny01
How does this team afford to lose Hanifin? They have a guy who was 8-9 on most depth charts playing top 4. Hanifin-Andersson-Taney are the only true top 4 D this team has. Right now Monahan is very overpaid for what he brings but I would say Hanifin has been a bargain the last season and this one
What were the big cap moving trades they missed out on that would have done wonders?
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I’ve been putting Hanifin in my trade proposals for quite some time now because I always knew Kylington could replace him in a pinch. Now that Oliver has actually surpassed him (in my opinion), the. it makes Hanifin expendable. If Hanifin’s contract needs to be moved out in order to pay for Mangiapane and Kylington’s new contracts, then I have absolutely no problem shipping Noah out.
I get that people look at his age and his draft position and think “potential, potential, potential!” But all I see is a $5M player who can skate, but is vanilla in every other aspect of the game. With Gio gone, I figured the increased opportunity would actually elevate his offensive production, but that hasn’t happened at all. I don’t think his current 3 assists would be that hard to replace at all. There are plenty of left shot vanilla defensemen who can defend relatively well and will come at a fraction of the price in the open market.