Very much in favor of firing Chatfield into the sun, but a lot of these line combinations and free agent adds make little to no sense.

Barbashev at 5 Mil makes no sense when Killorn and Domi will be available. Kulikov at 3.25 when Graves will be available for maybe a million more? Clifton I like, but there are prospects that can fill that role.

On top of that, the free agent omissions. Jordan Staal? You bring Fast back (to play on his off wing, which he cannot do!) but leave out the teams captain?

Freddie comes back despite his health issues and mediocre stats, not only that, but with a RAISE?

You play Svechnikov on his weaker wing and opt to play Teravainen on his weaker wing? You have the teams top producer and arguably best raw talent on the 2nd line? You leave Stefan Noesen (who is scoring at a roughly 40 point pace by the way) out of the lineup?

This is real bad.

Trading Chatfield who is on a league min contract and a solid 3rd pairing defenseman for nothing creates more problems than it fixes. I’m very happy I’ve blocked another commenter here because I caught a brief glimpse of their post before it was removed from my feed, and I’m still VERY confused by their Chatfield hate.