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Originally Posted by Gaskal
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.
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I think you mean the opposite, if you are arguing for him being on the right. However, most rushes I've seen him make are straight up the middle, with a head fake one way or another on the way.
And are we making some assumptions about what side he played until he played with Gio? I'd bet he's been on the left for significant periods of time. I know he did OK when he played with Engelland after Gio went down.
You know who else wanted TJ to make the adjustment to the left side? Crappy coach Darryl Sutter.