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Originally Posted by heep223
Gulutzan is trying to put a square peg in a round hole putting Brodie at LD. Get it through your head - it ain’t working. Get him back on his off side where he’s a star. He’s completely wasting him. So frustrating.
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I give GG a pass on most things since he improved the team in almost all metrics last season. But this, this GMG the most about him.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't give a flying #### about having a LD/RD on each pairing. Brodie on RD had one of the best backhand passes in the league. He was a top 20 D. Literally the DAY he changed sides, his game has gone down the crapper. Blame Wideman all you want. But even with Stone as his partner, something still seemed a tad bit off. We can point to the off ice issues all we want. But IMO the difference in Brodie can be isolated down to the moment he changed sides.
I don't care if the team has 6 RD or 6 LD. You put the player where he works best, in a spot he can flourish in. You don't assign him to play a certain side simply because you feel the need to have even LD/RD on each pairing. Sounds good on paper...but as the Flames prove every year, on paper means SFA come game time.
For some reason, forcing Brodie to play his opposite sides reminds me of Montreal only hiring french coaches. F finding the right person for the job, or putting the player in their best position. We do this because it's ''something we do around here"!