Confirmed Trade: [MTL/NSH] Alexandre Carrier for Justin Barron

[Gnashville]

What is with these 2 teams and trading/sharing Defenseman? Just call it the Francis Bouillon effect

 

[biturbo19]

It may surprise you, but currently there are just 11 RHDs who are 23 and younger in the whole NHL. People may not like Barron, but he is such rare commodity that 4th is definitely not enough.

I don't think that's really surprising. It's not like there's this magic pipeline that supplies tons of new ones each year.

The issue with Barron, is that yes...he's still young, but he's also seeming more and more flawed. You can hang onto that guy and just let his value wither away to nothing. Or you can move him and move on.

Sometimes that's a mistake. But most of those cases, i don't think the player would've "found their game" with that original organization in the first place.



Canucks fans cry about Gustav Forsling. But the dude spent forever in Sweden, ended up waived by two different other teams, before he finally found a foothold with the Panthers. And maybe Barron is that guy too...it's just not that likely.