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Originally Posted by dino7c
what on earth were you watching
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He was a bottom pairing defenceman.
I quite like Z, but you can’t sink money into your 3rd pairing and also afford the talent up front.
Gaudreau and Tkachuk’s contracts mean we will absolutely not be spending the ~$5.5M on our 3rd pairing we did this past season.
Even if we did have the cap space, our defensive depth was also exposed as being lacking because the moment we lost a 2nd pairing guy, neither Z nor Gudbranson could come close to filling the hole left. We had the luxury of overpaying a 3rd pairing this year - but that luxury is gone.