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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 29, 2018 at 9:29 a.m.
Thread: D-corp scenery change
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Truebeliever</b></div><div>While I support the idea of moving Alzner to a happier home, I think you're underestimating his ability. Granted, he didn't hit the ground running on a team that was reeling from losing Markov, Beaulieu and Emelin. That's a lot of minutes to lose in one summer. He had also never played in a system other than Washington's, which consisted of chipping the pass to Ovechkin at the hash marks, at which point the other team's D would start to skate backwards at lightspeed. And, to make matters worse, Weber was limping as of Game 1 and Carey Price was ... not Carey Price.

By the second half of the season, Alzner was a solid contributor and working well with the younger guys. As I said, I am all for moving him on, but he has value in the NHL, especially if you eat some of the contract.

On the Florida trade, it's way too much to give up for a good (not a great) defenceman and an OK goalie prospect -- of which we have many (Lindgren, McNiven, Fucale, Hawkey and Primeau). You have $11M in cap space. Matheson might be a tiny bit bit better than John Moore, but you could have Moore as a UFA and keep all those assets (Scherbak, Lehkonen, etc).</div></div>
I'm ready to overpay for Matheson and even ink Moore but i'd want to cleanse this d-corp. Alzner has an heavy contract for what he can bring on the ice and i'd rather sack him off the board and go with younger d'man.