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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
He could be a key cog for a rebuilding team who is in search of a stopgap top pairing guy until they get their franchise d-man to bump him down.
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While this is a true statement, lots of rebuilding teams (like Chicago, as those building teams are essentially the only teams with available cap space) do not want to pay the draft capital required to obtain Hanifin, nor are they particularly enamoured with signing him to a long term extension when their timeline of contending is still awhile away.