Its more about bringing balance to the team.
Your defense is a 10/10 but your forward group is still a 7/10, if that. Toffoli and Coleman/Dube as your top 6 RWers is fine but not ideal.
When you're looking at dealing with St Louis, Edmonton, Vegas, Colorado who have high octane offense, you want to be able to put up enough goals of your own. Which means having as many bona-fide top 6 guys as those teams can put out. Playing prevent hockey might not be enough, as we witnessed.
Weegar has a slight edge on Hanifin, so you still make an improvement on the back end, but trading D for F to give you a 9/10 defense and 8/10 offense I think helps you chances against the aforementioned teams.
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