Since you asked why...
1. We don’t know Sanderson is going to return. While I believe it’s likely, the coaching staff also thought Jost was going to stay for a second year and got burned. Let’s not go through that again.
2. What kind of caliber defensemen do you think is still available? Particularly for next season? They probably should have found a couple more d-men months ago. Hopefully they have a couple in mind because recruiting has got to be challenging with leagues stopping and starting, constant cancellations and postponements of games...
3. Morrow hasn’t played any junior hockey. He’s still at Shattuck. He’ll be pretty raw. And the other defenseman recruit signed for next year, Luke Bast, has been injured and has played like 3 games this season.
So, all that said, I’m not comfortable with our defense for next year at this point in time. We could be fine. But there are so many unknowns on defense. And until I know who will be here next year, this is a major concern for me.