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Originally Posted by dammage79
Hanifin had a great year and the entire team pooped the bed against Edmonton. Just a fair reminder that Hanifin is younger than Andersson and they make up a pretty great top 2 d pairing .
With guys that young you don't cut bait . You allow their continued development to carry on. This year was real time real world experience and they'll learn from it.
As far as the D goes on the Flames, they have to decide who their fillers will be because I think they're pretty happy overall with the youth (Andersson, Hanifin, Kylington) and Tanev.
It'll be up to Zads and Gud who gets replaced and with whom. Do they pull some kids from the farm? Did Stone earn a more full time role?
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He had a good year by counting stats, but his point totals were inflated by secondary assists from higher overall team and league scoring. His primary points (goals+first assists, 14) weren't that different from his totals the year before (10) or 2019-2020 (13). His defensive metrics were nothing to write home about either. He was the second leakiest defender at expected goals against/60 and was on the ice for the most amount of actual goals against, 2nd when adjusted for ice time.
In the playoffs, he was by far the worst defender both offensively and defensively, generating nothing on the puck and surrendering the most without it. Andersson gave up 1 more goal than him but was on the ice for 4 more.
He's young but has played more than 500 games. I've seen nothing about his play in the playoffs that suggested he's improved in a pressure situation since Colorado.
Could he improve? Maybe, but I'm ready to move on and think that there are enough teams liking his profile to make a trade worthwhile. It seems like he could bring in more value through trade+replacing him than his on-ice value for the Flames.