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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Let's try it again...
Giordano and Brodie were. the. best. pairing. in. the. league. last. year.
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I highlighted a crucial area of your post since you seem to be confused. I don't plan on going back in time to "last.year." and changing things. I'm talking about this coming year. I don't know if you've noticed but the Calgary Flames were able to acquire promising young defenseman Doggie Hamilton. So, depending on who has the best chemistry "this.year." you play those players together. Now my reasoning is that Gio, Brodie and Hamilton have all shown that they are top pairing defensemen but that they can elevate the game of others. I guess I shouldn't have said the Russell-Wideman pairing is a lock but they played extremely well together last year, as did Gio and Brodie but you have to play Hamilton on the top pairing so he'll either play with Gio or Brodie unless there is no chemistry with either of them then you have to revisit every pairing.
So in short, you have to consider every pairing a possibility. Russell-Wideman have, IMO, a better chance at staying together because of their skill sets compared to the other 3 top pairing guys. I think it would be great if Hamilton-Brodie worked out well as it would be our top pairing in the future but how knows.
In short, I'm talking about this.year. not last.year.