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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Brodie-Stone didn't play together last year. Brodie-Hamonic did. I'll get back to that later.
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Except when they did play together, which you asked about. Without looking up exactly, a good 20% of Brodie's time on ice was with Stone last season and they weren't good.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Fourth part - Brodie got a concussion. This interrupted the strong play of Brodie-Hamonic because one of them was no longer on the ice and let "the second part" overwhelm perceptions of TJ Brodie in 2017-18, and people would then bring up +/- numbers to attribute Brodie's poor play in that part two to his entire Gulutzan career, even though most of his minuses in 2016-17 came because Wideman was done as an NHLer and a lot of soft perimeter goals were scored when Brodie was on the ice that year.
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So a lot of excuses, but I don't care about his partners or his coach. I thought Brodie was significantly worse last year than this year, I don't care if Wideman pulled a Space Jam and stole Brodie's mojo or whatever the argument may be. Brodie, in my eyes, sucked last year compared to what we had come to expect from him. I'm certainly sympathetic if it was due to off-ice circumstances, but again his play was not up to par of what we expect and, as you admit, at times hot trash for month long stretches.
Now he's back with Giordano and regained form, great, but I'm less optimistic that it's Brodie alone and not Giordano who's been part of the "top defensive pairing" in the league for several seasons despite his partners. And again, you fail to address who the Flames keep in the draft. Somethings got to give, Seattle is claiming a defenseman if Brodie is re-signed. If he isn't re-signed, then it's a perfectly reasonable position to reclaim some assets in a trade.