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Maybe Erik Gudbranson? Hopefully not.
Agreed. Walker isn’t enough for Fleury imo.
Yeah Gardiner all the sudden becoming healthy enough to play right before the trade deadline is probably just a coincidence.Fleury may be traded but that isn’t why he is out. For anyone that actually follows the Canes
I could see us and SJ being pretty good trade partners. Meier probably wouldn’t be it. Hertl maybe.All this smoke around defense, I'm sure Waddell is going to come out and acquire like Timo Meier or someone totally out of left field.
"Fun"All this smoke around defense, I'm sure Waddell is going to come out and acquire like Timo Meier or someone totally out of left field.
Acquiring Risto would be fun. Maybe the Canes are like "**** it, put him with the best defensive D in the NHL and let's see what happens."
"Fun"
Yes, watching F26 melt down in despair can be considered fun.
I’m fine with Risto. He’s been overused and the expectations are off. Clean slate on our third pairing and he could be great.
As a bit of a newer hockey fan, I really enjoy reading this thread each day to get insight into what kind of roster structure Carolina may be looking towards in the future & how said structure could be achieved.
One thing that is a bit bizzare to me is the notion of Carolina going after defense at the deadline. Seems to me that Slavin, Hamilton, and Pesce are high end top-pairing guys with Skjei and Gardiner not far behind and Fluery and Bean more than capable of being on the third pairing of a championship caliber team.
I see the biggest need for the Canes being a volume shooter who can thrive around our playmakers. The fourth line, McGinn, Fast, Foegle, and even Nino seem to me more like grinders who mostly do the right things in terms of possession and pressure, but don't necessarily come across as a huge threat when given a scoring opportunity. While it's unrealistic to expect all 12 forwards to have elite goalscoring ability, I envision adding another volume shooter around the playmaking grinders that we have already could propel this team higher than any acquisition on the defensive end.
Is this just "too obvious" and what every team is trying to accomplish (aka expensive), or is there a specific reason people feel the Canes are better at forward than defense?
Is Risto a guy who is so repeatedly dogged (in the media, by fans, whatever) and overpaid that a deal for Fleury straight-up would work? In that case, I think you could use Risto as a 3rd pairing guy with Bean while gauging his ability to move into either Pesce or Hamilton's spot next year. That definitely makes what's lost in the expansion draft less predictable. I dunno...just thinking out loud.buy-low guys like Ristolainen