My take on Brodie.
As an old school defenseman the biggest key between partners is chemistry and we are now on our third partner that has pretty bad chemistry with Brodie. Partners need to be able to read off of each other and Brodie is extremely tough to read. Long stretch pass, spin o-rama and reverse, dump into the corner, pass behind the net? You never know what Brodie is going to do and it's tough as the other D as you don't know where to be. With Giordano, he was the dominate of the two, Brodie fed off of him and away they went. Plus, Giordano is really, really good and could make up for Brodie's miscues. With Brodie's new pairings he is considered to be the dominate and Stone, Hamonic have to read off of him and it is just not working. No clue how to fix that part of it but that is my take anyways. I don't mind the Hamonic trade still as my gut tells me Brodie is the problem on the pairing.
I still want a Giordano-Hamonic top, shutdown pairing. I think they would be really good together. Stone and Brodie would be fine as well. Not sure a Hamilton-Kulak pairing is capable but I honestly don't mind Kulak's game but he is prone to pinch's and mistakes and there is no way Hamilton can cover. Something has to change that I am certain off, just not sure how you do it.
I would start by shrinking his minutes though. Giordano is still our best defenseman and should be played as much. Put him back on the top PP and get Brodie down to under 20mins a game.
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