With respect Drivesaitl... this is the player thread, not the deal thread.
If you could compartmentalize the deal separately for a second it actually would be interesting to hear your (or anyone's) take on the actual on-ice Keith, independent of his cap hit.
Seeing that people are still citing my posts days after I had stepped out of the thread I'll respond.
Some different things have been stated since I exited thread. Theres notions of what it takes to win, DK instilling calm, team chemisty etc.
Again I'll be clear here with my assessment;
1)38yr old Duncan Keith does not cause a team to Win. Not on the ice, not on the bench. He's not that much of a player now, not an impact player (certainly less than Barrie now)
2) DK only won cups, (any) because he played a part in a packed lineup. I don't think there could be many arguments that Kane and Toews were unstoppable forces for the Hawks. I think they played a bigger role. Keith was probably the best part of a solid D core. I realize people could retrospectively say Keith was a bigger factor.
3) Winning, culture, isn't some bottled ingredient. What Duncan Keith knows about winning is encapsulated in some mega Chicago Black Hawk lineup that had enormous forward and D depth. If one guy wasn't making a difference another was. On that allstar Hawks lineup you just had to look down the bench, somebody was going to get it done.
DK wouldn't know anymore about winning than K Lowe would. If such a thing was so easy to transfer it would have happened here already.
4) Further to Keith (even in prime) only being a piece of a puzzle, its incumbent that the team shore up any holes in topsix, in forwards, goaltending, and of course sign Larsson. 38yr old DK is just an addon D here. Less good on the ice currently than Adam Larsson. Not even close to Darnell Nurse. But we're paying him too much to be a 3-4 which has bearing because DK is only going to be helpful if we ice a complete lineup in the fall. Not one full of holes and where almost all the offense is McDrai.
