It has the worst D in a decade because we lost one player? Does it make sense to keep that one player when the other 6 are , in your opinion, terrible? Just an honest hockey question.
I like Chabot and Wolanin. I can live with Ceci and Wideman and Boro. One thing they have in common is skating.
I think even with Karlsson it is one of the worst D's in the past decade. Without him it is for sure, in my opinion of course. Keeping Karlsson should be an easy option if we are able to surround him with even a modicum of talent, but we failed to do that, and failed to get that even in return for him. Hence it being such a putrid backend.
We don't have any top pair D (as of now, here's hoping Chabot can turn into one this year), and we only truly have 1 mid pair (Ceci should be, and is more of a #5 to me, though he's been saddled with #2 to horrifying results for 2 years, not his fault).
As it sits, we have a young, currently #4 being cast as a #1. And then Ceci is cast as the #2, who at best is a 2nd pairing D.
After that, we have 4 guys (Harper/Demelo/Wideman/Boro) who are all bottom pair D at best, and wouldn't crack the top 6 on a majority of teams.
Wolanin and Jaros are both wildcards, I feel both are in the top 6 D for this team in terms of talent, but only Wolanin will be filling the void, possibly in the top 4, as a rookie.
#4-#5
#6/7-#6
#6/7-#7
#7/AHL
That is how I view our current D corps. Chabot has the ability to become much more, and will be the shining star for this Sens season. Obviously I don't view Ceci in the same light as Sens management either.