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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The problem here is that this is simply not accurate. Bingo has posted figures a few times which demonstrate that Hamilton is far and away the Flames second-best defenseman.
This is reaching. Peters also stated in the same PC that no player is better on his off-side than he is on his strong side.
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Sure fancy stats say that, but what do you see? I see Giordano covering up a lot of Hamilton's mistakes. I see mistakes from both Brodie and Hamilton. Just go back and isolate and watch Hamilton, there are a lot of problems defensively and Giordano covers a lot of them. You could even argue that Giordano's offensive game has been hampered by covering up for Hamilton. Giordano had no problem putting up points while paired with Brodie.
Don't get trapped into relying fully on fancy stats.
Like I said, I'm going off of what I see, which is Brodie being superior when paired with Giordano. Am I biased? maybe, but it's the same bias that the Brodie haters have. Honestly I really have no reason to be bias, I don't know the players personally, they are all Flames to me and I want them all to succeed. But this is what I see. I'm not here to say trade Hamilton cause he sucks, i'm just curious why there is so much hate for Brodie. I see them both as fairly equal and if Hamilton can get a better return because his stock is high cause he's been playing with Giordano, than sure make a deal. I'm comfortable knowing that if that happens, the Flames can always fall back on reuniting Brodie with Giordano for an elite number one pairing; Flames won't take a hit at all in that regard. They will need to shore up the second and third pairs though.