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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 27, 2021 at 4:07 p.m.
Thread: Smart Moves Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gordfish</b></div><div>So here is the thing...our defense is really bad. REALLY BAD. Yeah, they could get help from a better coaching system (hello, puck possession!), but Green is back, so that's not happening, and a better class of bottom 6 forwards would help, too.

But they can't expect to compete with this core using journeymen defensemen with Quinn Hughes, and a Schmidt/Myers second pairing scares the hell out of me. I like Myers, but not with Schmidt on a second pairing.

Beyond Hughes, that defense scares no one in this league. A serious upgrade on both sides that moves Schmidt elsewhere and drops Hamonic to the third pairing should be the absolute number one priority on Bennings' to do list.</div></div>

Lol yeah I mean I'm not suggesting this is a great team, but it would be wise to ride out the bad deals we have. Outside of getting Seattle to take Holtby and trading top picks there really isn't much they can do.

You could probably get a more defensive guy to play with Schmidt or have him play with Rathbone on the right side. I also think Schmidt is A LOT better than last year suggests. I think that was an outlier, it was without a doubt his worst year and with everything going on from the trade, new system, COVID restrictions I don't blame him for having a bad year.

I also am a firm believer that while this D corp isn't great, it was amplified by how bad our bottom 6 is.