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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Meanwhile, Brodie, Hamilton and Gio cost a combined $19.15M. That's a bad use of resources. Brodie is the least good of those three. Trade Brodie.
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No, bad (*or mediocre) uses of resources are/were Mason Raymond's buyout, Troy Brouwer, Michael Frolik*, Michael Stone, and spending all our draft picks on Elliott, Smith*, and Hamonic*.
Trading Brodie is not only nonsensical but bound to backfire because he is coming off the worst season of his career and you simply won't get actual value for him. You said earlier here that Stone could easily replace Brodie on the second pair and that is simply absurd. A Stone-Hamonic pair would be a disaster over the long run. If you can't see why with your eyes here's a chart:
Brodie is so much more than point totals, although it's important for him to be contributing in that range because he's such an elite setup guy. Brodie is a guy who both gets the puck out of the defensive zone and into the offensive zone. Unless you've got a Connor McDavid lying around at center who can cover that, you live with what you have. Monahan is not a puck rusher. Pretty much any RW we pick up won't be that kind of puck rusher either.
The Black & White "Brodie is bad" attitude is insufferable. The likelyhood a Brodie trade improves this team is very, very low. Even his cap hit is completely ordinary. You want to shed cap off the backend, get rid of Hamilton. We made it deeper without him anyways.