Bet On It
Joined: Jun. 2017
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That's just not enough to move Johnson, and it's so abundantly clear. He doesn't crack the Sens top 6 D and carries his problematic contract so he's immediately an issue in that regard; if he served any sort of purpose to a team, then okay, maybe. If he was going to provide some value to their bottom pairing, then maybe he would be a worthwhile pick up in that sense and they might pay to acquire him or take less of a sweetener, but no. They have Chabot, Wolanin, Reilly, Brannstrom and Lajoie fighting for 3 spots on their left side this year, and they already have one overpaid bad defenseman in Zaitsev.
So then they're going to be asking for compensation, and instead you've provided... a 23 year old who lost almost an entire season to injury and has had questions about his ability to produce against tough competition and men, and a 22 year old D with very little NHL upside? So basically a bunch of nothing that the Sens don't already have coming out the seams? Maybe that moves the needle for a team starving for prospects (like the Penguins), but it doesn't sway anybody else. Understandably, Poulin is a lot. But it's probably going to have to include Legare or Joseph or those picks that JR just keeps flipping like they're candy. He's not going to just disappear because a GM wants to help an old man out of the goodness of his heart.