Edmonton isn't giving up a 1st for a 3rd pairing defenseman!

Phew! Good thing we weren't trying to send them Wideman then eh?

For a guy who makes his living on the defensive side of the puck, Edmundson’s defensive metrics are pretty poor. Among 8 Habs defensemen who have played at least 200 minutes at 5v5 this season, Edmundson ranks
– 8th in CA/60
– 7th in FA/60
– 6th in SA/60
– 8th in GA/60
– 6th in xGA/60
– 6th in SCA/60
– 6th in HDCA/60

Yes he plays top-4 but the results this year indicate that he’s not a top-4 defender, let alone a top-4 defender on a team with Cup aspirations.

He'd be a 3rd pairing defenseman in Edmonton. Not worth anything close to a 1st, even with 50% retention.

i mean it does seem like the play recently with tampa and florida and columbus and more doing it

Archive this, we'll return to it after the TDL.

Sure. There's half a dozen similar players available this deadline, that will lower the return.

There's plenty of narratives that can be spun around whatever stats and rhetoric's we please. We can debate until the cows come home, however, a 1st is not out of the ballpark. Whether we agree or not is another topic all on it's own.