Team history and culture are not separable. Fourth liners with character are actually a dime a dozen, and not enough -- e.g., look at Prust and so many others that have come in on that assumption/hope. Even Dorsett isn't the same as what Burr has and does offer. Burr was there for the team in the critical 2009-2012 period, he helped make the Sedins who they are. (Not in a big way, but he was the first decent winger they ever had, remember Klatt and Carter? lol.) But you are right about the penalties -- reckless stick in particular -- and at anything more than Dorsett's salary going forward a year or two this has to be adjusted. The same probably holds true for Hamhuis, maybe, and Edler, less certainly. It is more about history, and who you keep, rather than bringing in veteran leadership -- the latter never seems to work. Interesting challenge for mgt though: I'd rather we'd kept Bieksa than either Edler or Burr -- assuming that that choice had to be made.