[GreenLantern2814]

On the one hand, Rasmus Andersson is a home grown first-pairing Defenseman. He just made the Swedish national team - those guys are hard to find.

They’re going to have to pay people to continue to reach the floor anyway - might as well spend that money on Rasmus than some other free agent D who will only be nominally cheaper and won’t mean what Andersson does to your team and your culture.

Finally, if your top-2 RD are Andersson and Weegar, it allows you to insulate Zayne Parekh at 5v5 for all of his key developmental years instead of forcing him to be a top-4 player right away.

On the other hand, he’d return a king’s ransom, and that would be neat.

But that’s a problem for the summer, and if Ras wants to stay at a reasonable number, there’s no good reason to not keep him.