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Originally Posted by jeremywilhelm
Having Brodie play next year completely depends on where we sit with our current group. Is Babchuk re-signed? Is Sarich still here? Pardy Carson or Mikkelson qualified?
Those are all guys who would play ahead of the kid unless he put in some serious work to gain a bit of weight.
He is an extremely fast gifted defenseman, but on a strong forecheck, if the forwards didn't give him the easy out, he would end up getting hurt or turning over the puck alot. He is too good for the AHL though, he literally dominates games with his speed right now. He doesn't turn the puck over a whole lot, but it does happen. He can more often than not skate out of trouble in his own zone and has a really good first pass out of the zone, which is evidenced by the fact that he is the only dman that is a plus player on the Heat.
He could very well slot in in the bottom pairing next year depending on how the offseason goes.
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thanx man.
if he is showing promise, and as you say is already doing well at the ahl level, then maybe the contracts of sarich, babchuck, pardy need to be analyzed to see if they still make sense, from a risk vs reward standpoint of an ELC contract on the roster.
i'd like to see a top 6 of bouwmeester, regehr, giordano, babchuk, and at least one of brodie/erixon/pelech, and 1 of mikkleson, carson,pardy.
I do hope the flames are able to find sarich a new home this offseason.