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Originally Posted by Vinny01
the way this team had been coming the past couple years I was hopeful the hard working identity was fully integrated and not something we had to worry about wavering at all. I hoped with higher expectations we would see that work ethic increased another notch. I feel this team read the press clippings and even though they said all the right things they did think it would be easier this year and have lost their way.
The Flamea are a fast team with some good skill but are still a very small team. They don't have to ability to be out worked and still get wins. The goaltending is not strong enough to steal multiple games. They need to take a long look on th mirror and get back to what made them a great team to watch the past season and a half
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They are not as fast or skilled without Brodie on the ice for 25 minutes. Brodie is basically just over 8% of the total Flame team.
the elephant in the room is 40M 32 year old Giordano.
Gio became the "best" d man in the league around the time he got paired with Brodie. He was not in the top 40 D in the league in 2012-13 as a 28 year old when he was paired with Bouwmeester. He and Hamilton have played as to the same level of as Gio-Bouw.
Brodie made Engelland into as plausible top-4 d-man at the end of last year. Right now based on the most recent body of work Brodie-Engelland >>>>>> Gio-Hamilton