CBJ claims Dante Fabbro off waivers from Nashville

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  1. Not familiar with him.

    From what I see on the comments, people are a) surprised he is on waivers, and b) seems like a lot of teams put their bid in.

    Is he pretty decent?

  2. The team has 8 defensemen on the roster but just 2 of them are RHD. I think it’s much more likely the minutes are cut from JJ or Christiansen than Jiricek tbh

  3. I like the pickup, he can skate and at his best defends the neutral zone well and is a solid puck mover. He struggles a bit down low tho and it feels like he takes a lot of punishment on retrievals.

    I was surprised we picked him up though because we are carrying so many D and I wasn’t sure where he would slot into the lineup. Severson can’t play with Z because he will randomly turnover the puck at least once a game and Z will be 10 miles up ice. Overall I don’t see that combo working and it’s better to have Sevo on the 2nd pairing anyway. Feels like Provorov should continue on the first pair as I don’t see Fabbro being able to play those kind of minutes and Jiricek isn’t really ready. So Fabbro slots in on the 3rd pair and Jiricek likely moves down to the A.

    JJ just isn’t it, but he will play way more than Harris. I just don’t think Harris and Fabbro can play together. They will get bullied down low and give up a ton of possession and momentum to the opposing team, they’re both too small.

    The only other option would be to double-shift Provo and Z to make up for less than ideal combinations. So Provo anchors the 3rd pairing and moves up to be double-shifted on the right side with Z at key parts of the game and Z anchors another pairing. Some teams have done this in the past, but I’m not a huge fan of it.

    It’ll be interesting how Evason manages the lines.

  4. I was hoping we’d pick him but figured with the logjam at 6-7 D we’d pass. Happy to get Fabbro, worried what this means for Jiricek

  5. I KNEW IT. I told myself as soon as I saw him hit the market we’d claim him.

    Hopefully this is a match.

  6. LETS GOOO!

    Not gonna be Gustav Forsling but I think he’s the next good dman waiver claim. I’ve wanted him for years

  7. What a great addition, I haven’t followed Dante in a bit but saw him play as a rookie and he’s quite the skater and still young.

    Excited to see how he does for this squad going forward, especially in a contract season.

  8. This means Jiricek is either going down to Cleveland or getting traded right? Or Harris is getting waived/traded?

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