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Originally Posted by GioforPM
What I want to know is why Brodie is finding it so hard. Playing on your strong side should make board passes easier for exits. It should make puck reception easier in both zones. It makes pinches easier. There's a reason most coaches insist on this.
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None of that matters when you're been accustomed to playing the right side your whole life and all of a sudden you're expected to move permanently to the left. Daley was stubbornly used on the left side as a leftie in CHI, when he's like Brodie: a leftie used to playing on the right. He sucked until the Penguins got him for their run and put him back on the right.
If you consider the experience aspect of it, there's probably dozens of little tricks, breakouts, and plays he's developed himself and have been using for a long time - the moves that only a leftie playing on the right can do. All of a sudden he's being asked to switch.
For example, when Brodie does decide to carry it himself into the o-zone, watch the side of the ice he does it on. A lot of the time, he starts off on the right, uses the net as a shield from the forechecker, and swings around down the left side with speed. Just one of many things he does on that side.