I highly doubt it is Ekblad between the cost and him just being outside the ideal age we're targeting was just commenting on the NMC not being impossible to get around in general.
Not frequently but it does happen. I still think this is more a Lundell/Reinhart/Tkachuk thing. If we could sneak in Bennett or Lomberg that would be great.
I literally just watched him in Edmonton I didn’t see anything alarming in his play, I know he has improved quite a bit defensively from earlier in his career.