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I dont think we're over-hyping him that much. I just think that besides Markov, he's steadier than everyone on our blueline (with offensive skills to boot). He's something we need, and he can make guys like dandenault and bouillon expendable. Gorges has shown he can play more than 20 minutes. that means that between markov, gorges, hamrlik and beauchemin we'll have 4 legit 20 minute guys(2 25minute guys). We can fill in the blanks with weber, o'byrne, maybe schneider. Bottom line is that beauchemin gives us a younger, more offensively capable version of Hamrlik (the hamrlik of 2 years ago), that eats up a ton of minutes. What's maybe the most important of all, though, is that he can actually play the point with success. If you look at the free agents we can realistically acquire, there's basically only Leopold and Spacek who have decent PP skills worth acquiring. I'd take Beauchemin over both of those guys.
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