I think he's more of a Rafalski type going forward, .... part of the offence, good on defense but not the shooter or finisher.
Last season I was out of my normal seats for a game and sitting in the corner with some customers and he really stood out to me for one reason; awareness.
Bouwemeester (who I've never been hard on) would track the puck back into our corner without looking back to make reads. He'd already have his mind made up (across to his partner, up the glass, etc), while you could almost see Brodie in a Terminator like way (computer read out assessing the environment) and then making a decision. His head movements were almost like "ok there's option A, there's B, there's C, I like B more than C, and A more than B, so A" and then move the puck.
You can't teach that.
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