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Originally Posted by Ziggy Lidstrom
Poirier is a decent bit of business as you say but his defensive game has a long way to go to defend at the nhl level and his offense isn’t Cale Makar like. So really we have a lot of development left with him. He’s not physical and he will struggle at the pro level with his coverage. Think a worse Noah hanifin. He has his warts but no prospect evaluator is saying things are on the up with him. His recent benchings confirm the sentiments if anything. I hope all the prospects do well but to play at the highest level you have to be very competent physically as a dman unless your offence is top tier. He falls into neither category. This to me the risk wasn’t worth the reward but I’m not a decision maker.
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This sounds like something i said in 2011 about TJ Brodie. He was pretty yucky defensively too although a better skater than Poirier. Needs to marinate i figure before we have a clue.