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Originally Posted by Hockey-and_stuff
For me, Chris Tanev has a skillset that Kuzy or Bahl lack. Tanev is a both a better skater and has a better first pass.
Tanev has the ability to disrupt offensive plays then move the puck up the ice (either by skating it out himself or making a smart pass); Bahl often has to spend his entire shift defending because once he wins a pick he often loses it and has to continue defending.
IMO there is a blind spot when it comes to defensive defenders. Bahl may actually be a superior defender to Tanev but he is spending too much time doing just defending when a more efficient defensive D (Tanev, Forsling, Toews) are not only winning pucks in the S zone but starting the transition to offense much more often.
That's what you want from a top pair and middle pair guy. To me, that's not what you will get out of Bahl or Kuzy.
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Bahl is also just 25 as of a few weeks ago. Over ten years younger than Tanev, who had yet to become the player you’re talking about 10 years ago. Tanev was caved in 13/14 (his 24y/o season).
Maybe good to take a wait and see before determining what you will or won’t get out of a guy. Defencemen take time.