BT is far too conservative with his defencemen to anoint Andersson a lock for the first pairing and assume Stone can play in the third pairing after essentially not even making the lineup last year before the clot. He cares too much about defensive depth, and has held his ground on all other RFAs so far, I can't imagine him removing a top pairing defenceman and replacing him in the lineup with Stone just because of Tkachuk's demands.
If Brodie does get moved, I still see another defencemen being added.
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