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Originally Posted by Incogneto
....Did you watch him the last two years without Gio? he was lost....and -16 both seasons.
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I watched him a lot more than you did, if your posts are any indication.
Gulutzan's system, playing the left, and playing with terrible partners didn't do him any favours but there was not a single time he was a bottom pair defenseman.
Yes he had a two month slump last year with uncharacteristic giveaways, that had nothing to with whether or not he was playing with Giordano.
The team's play also completely fell off the map after his injury, which wouldn't happen if he were a bottom pair defenseman.
And +/- is a garbage stat. Last year Backlund was -21. This year some of the worst +/- belong to guys like Vlasic, Barkov, Ekman-Larsson, Provorov, Tarasenko, Werenski.
And Hamilton and Brodie have very little in common, other than the fact that neither is a bottom pair defenseman by any definition.