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Originally Posted by Jason14h
The conclusion I made ? That Andersson is better suited for a 2nd pairing role where he doesn’t have to shut down the other teams top players.
So your argument is that this past year he played a shut down role/top D pairing - where he was unable to shut down the other teams best players - but it’s not his fault because Bahl wasn’t good enough - and was a league worse +\- but if he’s traded he won’t have to play shutdown and can play with better players and be a contributor ?
That’s exactly what I posted . He isn’t good enough to anchor a top pairing D and isn’t a great shutdown D . Both things he showed last season
Few D are though . It’s not a shot at Anderson . He’s just best suited on a non shutdown pairing not going against the other teams best players . And on a contender that is the 2nd pairing
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Situation, and personnel, matter. Andersson was under siege most of the injury-riddled year. With a proper partner, on a good team, he looks very, very different.
With defensemen especially, you have to evaluate the tools, more so than their current performance, which is so dependent on external factors.