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Originally Posted by Rikster
Given the year he is having in the OHL, not sure why the Americans passed on him for the World Junior tournament, but of all the pieces leaving Vancouver in the deal for Lindstrom, he was the one I wish wasn't included.
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The answer to this is easy: The Americans had a unusual number of highly skilled dmen. What they lacked was dmen with physicality and defensive acumen. So they needed to balance that out in terms of the type of D they were bringing.