I find it a bit strange that we haven't signed any cheap defenders yet. Hopefully those moves are coming.
Cause we signed: Santorelli, Winnik, Booth and Kontiola for really good prices. We should be doing these types of deals to get one or two more defenders who could just play on the third pairing and not screw up all the time.
If we can trade Franson and sign two cheaper NHL D, then I think we'll have a solid team going into next season.
Maybe we haven't done this yet because they want guys like Granberg to play. I guess we have options like Holzer and stuff like that too. So we've got a lot more depth on defense on the Marlies. On offense, all we've got is Leivo, Bodie and Ashton. Leivo I actually think could be good. Bodie is probably just a 4th liner and Ashton I don't think will be a regular NHL player. So maybe the plan is to stay lean and mean and use the Marlies on defense if needed. With our forwards, we didn't really have that option.