Quoting: csick
I agree, Holl is a 3rd pairing Dman tho. Can’t see him being on the 2nd pair and be a competitive teqm
I had him as either 3rd pairing or 7th D-man. I may be wrong but Miller played well, but could not break into the line up with Ristolainen, Montour and Jokiharju ahead of him.
I was musing and thought what it would take to sign Soderberg for one year as our #2 center and make this trade:
Olofsson Eichel Kapanan
Skinner Soderberg Reinhart
Johansson Kahun Okposo
Girgensons Larsson Thompson
Johnsson Lazar
Dahlin Montour
McCabe Jokiharju
Pilut Miller
Holl
Ullmark/Hutton
Kapanen, Soderberg and Kahun are an upgrade over Vesey, Rodrigues, Sobotka and Sheary.
Give Mittelstadt, Cozens, etc. another year in Rochester and build a winning attitude then bring them up to replace Johansson, Soderberg, etc. It would be interesting.
Let me close, I would trade Montour or Miller before I would trade Ristolainen. He improved tremendously last year, and many defensemen do not demonstrate all-star status until 26 yo.
I would not trade him unless the return was at least this.