ATypicalCanadian
Registered User
Just my opinion, but McKenzie's tweet wasn't that straight forward. He mentioned that Preds intention is to keep Emelin in lineup.
If they are planning on trading one of their existing top 4 d, off course they traded for Emelin with the intentions to play him.
Or they intend on keeping and playing him without trading one of their d?
I think Preds see Emelin as top 4 D, it just doesn't make sense to allocate cap/salary of $4 million for a d to play in your 3rd pairing IMO.
Maybe Poile is trying to keep playing to their strengths ? Their top 4 already is amazing and adding a guy like Emelin to the bottom 4 just makes it that much more strong.