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Yep, depth is not capable to replace him properly, but it kinda says that he is important to the current Avs team.
Dallas series is showing how we are missing EJ in his defenside D role. He's one of the go-to PK and defensive situations D after all.
As PAZ mentioned, it is his salary cap which makes people uneasy, but he cannot be replaced via current depth right away and perhaps not even after a year.
Yes, Johnson is one of Bednar’s go-to defensive players, but he’s also not that great defensively.
For me it’s less about what Johnson does and more the fact that Graves has to play too much and Connauton has to play at all.
In general it’s a lot harder to replace injured defenceman then injured forwards simply because of the minutes they play. Even when Johnson was playing 17-18 minutes most recently on the 3rd pair with Zadorov that’s as much TOI as Kadri usually gets.