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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Hard to say as what is "a thing"? Do they need to draft or trade for a top pairing player, probably will need to trade for 1 as it appears as of right now they have 0 that have that potential. But our attitude towards Niemela could be the same towards Porier from other teams fans and media?
Calling up guys that aren't top line and 1st line players still has an impact. See Zary and Pospisil. Both have been good additions.
The cheaper depth guys you have, maybe they at some point can use cap space on a top pairing dman and find a Rasmus in the draft and sign a Tanev who has been rock solid and a steal for us for his entire contract.
They got the forwards.
What was plan b if they did not sign this deal? Trade him? They aren't that bad of a team to be ditching 100-point rental players.
The contract is not a steal, but with an escalating cap it's not an anchor of a deal too.
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Disagree about the deal, I think Nylander did great here.
I was genuinely asking about Niemela as I don’t follow their team very closely. Is he hurt like Poirier?
Of course 2nd/3rd pairing and 2nd-4th line players are valuable, agree on that one. Makes it all the more puzzling that Liljegren keeps coming up in rumors as he and Knies are the only two on the right side of age 25 on that team.