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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Brodie has been spectacularly awful for two years, he absolutely needs to be gone this off season. I am not saying he can't rebound somewhere else but he has cost us multiple games and is a bonehead in his own zone with us.
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He has been the most consistently awful player on the ice this year for sure. It's bad when you are amazed that he actually has a decent game, can't say as I've seen him have a "great" one all this year. It's hard to imagine how different he looked just a number of years ago.
What I have really noticed too with all the defense, but least of all Gio, and worst of all him is when they have the puck they just get mired down in decision making and I begin to hear the jeopardy theme song playing in my head as I watch the opposing players close in to cut off whatever chance there was for a shot or a pass slip away.
He's just not thinking and reacting properly to the game, you have to be a step ahead and know what your going to be doing before a puck arrives, or before a player begins to fly the zone, or the puck goes loose, and that stuff should be instinctively drilled into him by now through drills and just playing hockey for all his life now, if he doesn't automatically know what to do at this stage of the year then I have to blame the coaching for that, he's all turned around inside it seems.
So for that reason I would have to say that as much as I'm pissed at his play I'd honestly still rather see him get a chance under a different coach next year because he has shown he can play, and we'll get less for him then we should on the heels of a year like this from him. But if we aren't changing coaching staff, then yeah if he's not getting it after a year or 2 he likely never will and should see a change of scenery, where I am sure he will flourish, as always seems the case.
He has been for me one of the biggest disappointments this year for a veteran who should have anchored our 2nd pairing and be the rock for the new guys put with him, but he's been the liability.
I want to like the guy I have so many found memories of his play and all, but man he's just not played well all year, muffin shots, terrible decisions, not even skating as well as he can imo, getting pylon'd way to regularly.
This whole team and its jekyl and hyde nature has been hard to fathom this year.