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Originally Posted by dissentowner
As a big London Knights fan I have seen a lot of Hunter and he projects as a top pairing D man to me. His hockey IQ is unreal. I think this is going to be looked at down the road as a huge mistake by Vancouver letting this kid go.
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That’d be amazing! He is the top D that we brought in through the the trades in my mind easily. I’m now just hoping that Grunishkov turns into a Tanev/Vlasic type and Bahl a more defensive (and perhaps less offensive) Zadorov.
Guys like Jurmo, Okhotiuk I don’t expect anything from. Miromanov I’m a less less high on than the coaching staff.
In our own guys, I think the year lost for Poirier pretty much took away his impact NHL chances. Kuznetsov and Soloyvov are nothing more than no6’s at best. I just hope Etienne Morin develops into a 2nd pairing staple.
I wouldn’t be shy to take a dmen at 9 if one of the top dmen fall to 9 even though I’m still not a Parekh fan (Yakemchuk excluded).
Lev, Silayev, Buium, Dickinson are no brainers.