Hurts them capwise moving forward, and have a feeling while Ekholm is an upgrade defensively, he'll end up just like Larsson. Preds are a defensively sounds team, top to bottom, with a system that supports the defense. Oilers are not. Ekholm will be the lone man playing defense, with expectations so high that he's the answer to their woes that he crumbles and becomes a mid 30's over paid middling d-man that spector tries to run out of town in the next 24 months.
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