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Originally Posted by Jay Random
What they really are is an odds-and-sods line: players you want in the lineup, but who aren't quite good enough at their particular roles (at least for now) to crack the top 9. Traditionally you fill those spots with youth if you've got it, bruisers and bangers if you haven't, or some combination of the two.
By the way, I laughed when I saw those HF reports. Year after year, they said the team didn't have a good puck-moving defenceman in the system; but year after year, they listed T. J. Brodie as one of the top prospects. Oops.
(Saying the team hasn't got a good puck-moving D prospect this year is fair, since Brodie has well and truly graduated. But with Brodie, Giordano, Russell, and Wideman in the lineup, it's likely to be a little while before the Flames need another player of that type.)
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I was just going to post exactly the same thing. It just goes to show that "potential" rankings only give part of the story, just ask Gio!
Brodie has slowly become one of my favorite Flames, on this curve I think his name will be mentioned among the best in the league for years to come. I mentioned it in the Game Takes thread from last game but just watching him double shift in the first after the Gio injury gave me chills. Left side one shift, right side next shift, 30 second shift break and repeat. Just goes to show you can't tell always predict how a player will turn out.
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