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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
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.
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Hanifin has developed into a very solid shutdown Dman and there is not a replacement in place. I am so happy Kylington has done what he has done but it has been 15 games.
This is a thin blueline. So much junk up front I don’t agree they can trade a top pairing Dman right now just not expendable. Is Zadorov or Valimaki now in the top 4? Kylington goes from press box to number 1 LHD in 15 games?
I am not with you there when I see so many worse contracts contributing less.
I would prefer to buy out Monahan next summer then ship Hanifin out unless we see leaps and bounds improvement from Valimaki