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Originally Posted by Trochu

Maybe not, I'm still happy with it though.

You can cherry pick numbers either way, but some reasonable comparisons from non-playoff teams:

-Faulk, 31 pts on the same team, $4.8M;
-Klefbom, 21 pts, double digit minus as well, $4.2M;
-Goligoski, 35 pts, -31, $5.5M; and,
-Mike Green, 33 pts, -14, $5.4M.

What sways it for me obviously is that Hanifin put those numbers up on Carolina, should be better on the Flames, and he's only 21. Off the top of my head, I can only think of one defenceman in the NHL who is likely better, Charlie McAvoy, who also happens to be playing on one of the better teams in the NHL. So signing one the best young defencemen in the game for less than $5M seems pretty good.

Not a particularly strong crop of young dmen if Hanifin is the second best young dman in hockey.