In your original response you were talking currently, I was talking his potential.
You really think Lagesson will be a good bottom pairing dman only if Larsson is his partner? I fully expect after a few years in the NHL he'll be a great shutdown dman, regardless of partner.
I'm still a big Lagesson fan. I would easily pencil him in as our #5/6 moving forward. Not saying he has shown enough for that faith forsure, but in limited viewing he has done well.
The 200 nhl game mark is where you can judge a defensemans overall potential and the 400 game mark is where you should be able to see what you actually have.
Lagesson has only had... 26? And has shown "well enough" to earn more but unfortunately/fortunately we have enough depth that is keeping him from getting more.
Edit: I hope Broberg gets a lot of ahl time. From reports it sounds like he needs it. But more so because of Lagesson and Samorukov. Both imo have significantly less flashy games but that I think "should" be excellent depth defenders with top 4 upside.
Rushing Broberg will all but certainly narrow the window on those two even if Klefbom doesn't come back.