Brodie played at his highest level when the team relied on the D to be the engine of the team. Countless times team officials said that in 2014-15. Brodie and Russell, with their skating ability powered the team.
I’m excited to see how Brodie and Hanifin (and hopefully Kulak) can do that as I think Peters wants the D to drive play when possible.
Brodie’s issues recently were rooted in the tactical changes (D to Do and pass up, rather than skating or quick transition). I see a huge year and hopefully a shutting up of his detractors.
His ability didn’t go away at 27-28 years old. Get him skating, up leading the rush, skating back hard just getting into his rhythm and flow and just watch. I’m expecting the offence to explode because there will be a dynamic quality to the attack and it will start from the back end.
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