Washington Capitals: 3 Affordable Free Agent Defensemen
By CJ Witt
Andrej Sekera
Andrej Sekera is currently in the middle of trying to win a Stanley Cup. That’s an admirable task. Deja Vu! He would be going more in the direction of veteran guy who has been around a while. He’s 34-years-old and has been in the NHL for thirteen seasons.
He’s not a top four guy, but luckily that’s not really what the Capitals would be asking for, at least if you ask me. In terms of actually getting Sekera though, maybe this could be tough. Win or lose in this Cup Final, will he want to leave Dallas? This is a proven great team with likely more chances to win. Dallas also has well over $15 million in cap space with not many big names to re-sign. Maybe they go bigger with the cap space and Sekera then becomes available?
He won’t blow you away with his stats. He doesn’t score very much, at least these days, and his advanced numbers are more towards the average side. But for a depth defenseman he’s plenty good I think.
In 57 games played in Dallas this season he had a 48.50 Corsi%. That’s the wrong side of fifty percent but his important numbers did go on the right side. His scoring chance percentage was at 51.06 and his high danger percentage was 51.79%.
Again, Washington won’t be asking this guy to play top four minutes or pressure. Just be a bottom two or depth guy and play good defense. At a current cap hit of $1.5m he’s definitely affordable and could leave room for more deals if needed.