The Edmonton Oilers may or may not ultimately trade for Brent Seabrook. But in the absence of any fact on that front, fans in Oil Country are nonetheless going hard at debating the player’s attributes and shortcomings. And most of those debates come down to two things: Term, and Cost.
The concern over term I get. It has been extensively researched and proven that, for every freak of nature such as Chris Chelios or Nicklas Lidstrom, there are hundreds of NHL defencemen (good, average and bad) who hit their best-before date by their mid-30’s.