The Red Wings might have overpaid for Chiarot (four years at an average annual value of $4.75 million), but the free-agent market for defensemen was thin and he checks several boxes (big, physical, experienced, left-shooting). He scored nine goals (along with a career-high 26 points) last season between Montreal and Florida and in 2019-20 with the Canadiens, but he was brought in to defend and move the puck out of the zone, so the Red Wings don’t spend as much time in their own end.
Ansar with the most-agreeable post I’ve seen from him in years. He’s got Oesterle-Lindstrom on the third pair with a discussion that Seider didn’t move up this quickly either and that the Wings don’t want to bounce him around.