It was super obvious the team needed a dman after seeing McWard and Juulsen play 9 and 13 minutes respectively last game. Price is unbelievably cheap, which makes this a worthwhile deal.
Ultimately is a 4/5 caliber dman, similar to Soucy and Cole, but when you have a top pairing line Hughes/Hronek you can get stomach having a bunch of 4/5s a lot more.
Would've be nice to get a number 3 level guy, but this puts everyone in a much better position to succeed for the rest of the season. Very happy with this, especially if he can play on the right side when everyone is healthy.
I think that's the benefit maybe here is that they have 8-9 guys I don't mind seeing play NHL games when healthy. I don't want to forecast pairs, but Hughes, Cole, Hronek, Zadorov, Myers, Bear, Friedman, Brisebois, and Wolanin.
I would really push to shift Myers into a rental, but I think this move gives them another body through a meatgrinder schedule while we wait for guys to get healthy.
And if everything somehow works out and this blueline holds up, maybe they do not need to trade for another blueliner and can shift into looking for an F rental instead.