[Ziggy Lidstrom]

They are being compared because we are going to lose good players this off-season.

IMO defenceman are more valuable than wingers to overall success. I think willing their team to any type of success eluded tachuck and at 9 million per year I would look elsewhere to invest that money. Look at MacKinnon willing his team to a win vs us in 2019. And big Z was a large part of that but not what won them that series. It was one player who broke the flames will. Tachuck isn’t that caliber of player.

MT isn’t that much of a game breaker to me. His advanced stats I think are a by product of playing with a selke candidate and a hart candidate.

Plus no one has engaged the other point I was trying to make about Z. He’s so big and nasty that I don’t think we can replicate that anywhere in our system. Who else even comes close to him on the FA market?

It’s just a tough spot to be cap wise and I like JG and Big Z over JG or Matt T.
With his advanced stats you could probably get quite the haul for tachuck. We have Coronado and Pelletier coming. We don’t have much beyond kuznetsov in the large and nasty department.

I keep Jonny over chucky. And maybe we can keep big Z if tre works his contract magic.

Intimidation is a valuable skill to possess in pro sports and it’s why tachuck is second to big z for me come July 1st.