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Devon, I'll start with you. What do you think about Gustafson signing with the Red Wings? I mean
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there's another veteran getting added and he's going to take ice time from the young guys
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but he could potentially fill a role here. You know, I think Steve Eisenman has like a weird
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like that going with somebody where every year he can bring in a former Blackhawk
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Because Gustafson's that guy this year. Last year it was DeBrinca and Patrick Kane
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Year before that, Dominic Kubelik. The year before that, Pew Suter. You know, it's becoming
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a weird trend. But anyways, I think Gustafson's kind of your diet Gostisbierre, so to speak
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I think he kind of fits right into that hole where he's kind of an offensive guy. He doesn't have the same offensive ceiling as Shane Gostisbierre does
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but I also think that Gustafson is maybe a little bit better defensively
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Now, don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want Gustafson on the ice when you're trying to preserve a one
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goal lead, but maybe I trust him a little bit more than I trust Gostisbierre. And that's saying
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something because Gostisbierre was one of the more leaky defensemen on the Red Wings blue line
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that's for sure. But at the end of the day, I think he's kind of the perfect type of offensive
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defenseman for the Red Wings to target because he is on a relatively cheap deal, $2 million
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If that is sitting in the press box, that's not as big of a deal as the $3.4 that Justin Hall's
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making, right? It's a little bit easier to stomach if that's in the press box. And also
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I think that he's good enough to where he can play games, but also he's not so good and so
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you know, well respected or whatever that like he's going to block, you know, Simon Edmondson
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if Edmondson proves he can be the power play guy or, you know, whatever. I think that he's a good
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stand in for Gostisbierre, but I think that because he's not as good as Gostisbierre, he's
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not as much in the way of some of their younger defensemen. And I know for my part, that makes
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me excited because I want to see a lot of growth out of the youth this season
