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Originally Posted by Spurs
I agree with the first two for sure, I think they are being asked to do a little more than they should but they are fine for the roles you listed.
I have not been impressed with DeSimone at all, I think he is an AHL guy as well, but others seem to see something with him that I am missing.
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He's at almost 100 minutes with Zadorov as a partner and an expected goals number of 57%.
That's doing the NHL job in a third pairing.
Of his 8 games, he had solid underlying numbers in 6 of them.
It's not a sample size to conclude he's a NHL third pairing defenseman but I think it's enough to give him a longer look; especially ahead of say Oesterle and Gilbert.