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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Oh, they absolutely have soured, in part because Brodie wasn't very good for a two month stretch last year, but for other reasons too that he had no control over. These were the kind of opinions you saw on CP about Brodie back before Glen Gulutzan happened:
Nowadays we have guys on CP calling him a bottom pair defenseman or comparing him to frogs.
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haha fair enough but for me he is easily a top 4 defenseman and anyone who doesn't see that isn't being objective.
I agree he makes mistakes and they generally end up in our net but he is playing tough minutes and it should be expected when you play against the best forwards each night.
Even though I think he is a top 4 dman I still think he is less valuable to the team than Hamonic, Gio and Hanifin. This is primarily because Hamonic is so unique to our d-core and we need him in order to not have a bunch of lefthanded softies in our top 6. Meanwhile Gio is elite and signed long-term and Hanifin is signed and has big upside.
Due to this I think I can understand why people think he is our 4th best dman. Gio is clearly number one, Hamonic plays on the top PK unit and he and Hanifin do still see hard minutes. I wouldn't go as far as to say he is our 5th best dman. IMO he is likely our 3 best dman and is no doubt in the 2-4 range.
For me what makes me lean towards trading him is his value is high, his contract is expiring soon and we have 3 emerging youngsters.
If he was signed for 2 more seasons I would have no problem rolling out a top 7 of #5,#7,#55,#24,#58,#4,#8 but #7 and #24 are expiring and losing one/both for nothing is unacceptable. Re-signing both is unrealistic unless Kylington is traded and I don't want to trade Kylington, at least not until we see more of him at the NHL level - perhaps even on the PP.