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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
If we're playing Andersson 25 minutes a night I don't think we are making the playoffs. That's just my opinion, unless we are going to rock with a Weegar / Andersson pairing, which I would advocate for. Have Bahl and Parekh as a pairing, or Bahl / Pachal and Hanley / Parekh.
Weegar going to LD allows us to not have Parekh on his off side.
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What do you mean "if"? He is already playing 25 minutes per game and he did so much of last season as well.
Planning for an Andersson trade, I really think we need to establish our new shutdown pair. Last year Andersson-Bahl did the heavy lifting playing with Backlund's line against other team's top lines. As soon as possible we need Weegar-Bahl to take on that role.
Andersson-Hanley could then take on the other job of playing with Kadri and Frost's lines as a more offensively deployed pairing
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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
that would detract from his value as he is an offensive black hole. He is a point man who refuses to shoot.
You might as well use a 5 forward pp2 at this point.
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This is simply not true. Looking at 2022-2025, Andersson is tied for 20th in the league for goals scored by a D. Even if you add a few more years and make it 2020-2025 he is still 34th in the league for goals scored by a D.
That means he would be the top goal scorer in most D groups in the league or at least 2nd place.
If you want to be critical of his lack of assists, fine, but is that really his fault or does that fall on the shoulders of the people he passes the puck to? Also, the entire Flames roster struggled to score last year so it is silly (in my opinion) to be critical at a lack of assists.
Anyway, when you look at the facts, Andersson is still one of the best goal scoring D in the league and that alone would make him worth more than Walman's contract. The fact that he is by far the best D available for UFA this summer means that there will be a race or a bidding war for his services and it is just a matter of time before one of the other GMs makes a move.
