Right now I'd put Calgary's D 5th behind Nashville, Minnesota, Columbus, Anaheim.
They can easily move up if the blue line is as good on the ice as on paper. But that's yet to be determined.
We made this same mistake overestimating the defence in 2015 with a top 4 of Gio, Brodie, Wideman, Russell (lol..)
It's definitely better than that now, but we have to see if Brodie and Hamonic can rebound and fill out their potential as a pairing. Pretty much everything hinges on them.
While Hamonic looks like he was hampered last season by injuries, being played like a #1, and the distraction of trade rumours, it's hard to determine why Brodie played so far under what we've seen from him before. It was a really subpar season from a guy that can skate like the wind, particularly on the defensive side of his game. Have to see if he can recover from a pretty lengthy stretch of subpar play last season.
Last edited by djsFlames; 07-05-2017 at 10:40 AM.
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