I can’t even comprehend why everyone is down on the Severson when he’s clearly our best defenseman and he’s struggling only because he has to be our 1D while partnered with bad players on a team where only some of the forwards attempt to help out defensively. You’re blaming Damon for not being Victor ****ing Hedman.
We don’t need to remove Severson, we need to add defenseman. This team would be a whole lot more functional with two solid middle pairing LD. And, yes, losing Greene made our defense much worse because our collection of crap bottom-pairing flotsam now have to get more playing time.
That said, I 100% approve of trading Severson for William Nylander. Unfortunately I don’t believe Toronto would actually do that.
It’s pretty easy to comprehend, Damon Severson is a mediocre defender and a average producer offensively. He’s basically an "offensive” #4 dman that will put his team in trouble when the puck is in his own zone.
If he’s our best dman, which he isn’t, we’re in a world of trouble and we need to bring in 6 new dmen. I would trade him for just about anything and try and get guys who are on the market with the assets we gained, like Matt Dumba for example.
I’ve been reading the same excuses for Severson for about 4 years now and his play has remained the same. At some point, you have to see what he is and stop making excuses. True, his partners haven’t been all that great but the mistakes he makes are all on him. He doesn’t tie up his guy in the slot, he goes in the same corner as his partner, he tries to pinch when no one else is there to cover him, etc, etc, etc.
Those are all mental breakdowns and it has nothing to do with the guy playing on his left side.
