From the looks of the internet today, you'd think that Alex Semin had been waived again. A team with a well-known questionable defense for years has placed a birds-eye-view analytics darling defenseman on waivers and certain corners of the internet are honestly astounded at the response from a lot of Red Wings fans (this blog included).
Let's be clear, I don't think Jakub Kindl is garbage. I think he has a place in the NHL and I think that there's a real good chance a team making a claim on him will get a value pick-up for taking his $2.