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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Sorry, but that is asinine. Brodie is easily better than:
Justin Schultz
Patrick Wiercioch
John Carlson
Jake Gardiner
Jason Demers
Jared Spurgeon
IMO, he is also clearly better than Del Zotto, Bogosian, Myers and Josi, but I readily admit those are debatable.
You can definitely say that Karlsson, Pietrangelo, Doughty, and probably Voynov are ahead of him, though he is gaining on Voynov ,IMO.
4 ahead
4 similar (I would put Brodie ahead of all of them)
6 clearly worse
Also, Brodie is trending up, gaining on the better ones and passing the weaker ones.
The crap Brodie takes on this site absolutely amazes me. I guess there is a lot of the "Flames=crap, other teams' players are better" attitude around here.
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I am not giving Brodie crap..... for a 4th round pick he is doing extremely well.
Carlson is the #1 D man on Washington
Spurgeon is #2 in ice time on a playoff team.
There would not be an instant victory claimed by Wash or Min if they were to get Brodie in a one-for-one swap.
So using your rating system: 4 clearly ahead - 6 arguably even and 4 guys out scoring him but not as good.
The other d-men from that draft include Luke Schenn and Travis Hamonic who could be put into the as good as Brodie category.
4 ahead 8 even
Would you trade him for Ekblad?
In 5 years there is a great chance that the first d-man picked in 2014 will turn out significantly better than the #10 best guy out of 2008.
Also I don't know exactly how to put this but Brodie moving to top pairing, along with a career year from Gio, a great year from Russell still were anchoring a team to a 26th place finish. Might we have him overated a tad.
Will Brodie be better on a consistent basis than Gio was last year? If the Flames are going to be a playoff team with a chance to win a round they need a stud d-man...is it Brodie?