Axel Sandy Pelikan
Sugar-free Rock Star
- May 11, 2023
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Honestly the Walman trade and the Gustafsson signing really annoy me. We traded a 2nd round pick to make space on the roster and get some cap space. Fine. We then used that space to sign a worse player, bloating our terrible defense with another fringe NHL D. We have 2 guys on the roster that I'm confident belong on NHL ice and one of them has 25 career games. We could make moves to upgrade that or we could roll with the kids. We're choosing to do neither, and we're paying to do it. I don't see why.
Gustafsson is a better hockey player than Walman. Full stop.
If anything came out of this FA period, it needs to be that people overrated the f*** out of Walman based off of like 40 games of looking competent with Seider.
Once upon a time, Jakub Kindl didn't look like warmed over dog-shit when he played with Kronner either. And Ian White looked like a f***in legit top 4 D playing with Nicklas Lidstrom.