Defensive defencemen are difficult to evaluate.
The really good ones make it look easy — “he’s not a good defenceman, it’s just that nothing ever happens when he’s on the ice”.
But Bahl doesn’t look to me like a $5m player yet. And I think he’s going to have to elevate his game significantly to be worth $5m even as the cap goes up.
Hopefully he does. At 25 years old, he’s still got a little bit of runway.
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