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Originally Posted by Toonage
They aren't hurting for offence so it makes sense to look for an actual defender, but I'm not sure if Ekholm - paired with Nurse I assume - is going to be that guy. And yeah, sort of a step back in that if they lose a D to injury the pool is pretty shallow when it comes to experience.
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They’ll probably do this thinking Ekholm will make Nurse a $9.25 million dollar Dman.
He still doesn’t have Barrie’s puck moving acumen, so… it’ll be a lot of heavy lifting for Mattias.
I would think trying him with Bouchard makes more sense, because he still has the ability to learn/grow from his mistakes.
It’s funny that despite their wagon of dominance and “being the team they’ve waited for” they don’t have the wiggle room to buffer a bit of learning/growth for a 23 year old Dman.
Nurse is what he is.