[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

Which mistakes were those, that "really cost the team"?

As far as I can recall the only costly mistakes he made in the entire series were

- failing to play a bad pass from Andersson with his body, resulting in a game-tying breakaway in game 2. The Flames still proceeded to score the next goal after that to take the lead The game was then lost with Giordano on the ice for each goal against, but Hamonic and then Andersson were Gio's partners on those goals against. But like with most costly mistakes, mistakes were made by more than just Brodie.

- having a failed pinch down multiple goals in game 3 that led to an odd man rush. A competent backchecking effort by the forwards would still have prevented this goal. A different (tied/close) game score would have meant no pinch - this was a calculated gamble.

What other mistakes are you talking about?

You wanna talk about costly goals against or penalties I can wager there were defensemen including Giordano, Hamonic, Andersson, and especially the tirefire that was Hanifin who had costlier gaffes in the series. Gio had a powerplay mistake, I believe in game 3, that was worse than Brodie's powerplay "mistake" in game 2.

Or maybe you're talking about ultimately uncostly gaffes that just made people angry.

Valimaki was excellent though, I agree with you there as well as that our second pair got dominated. I just think those Brodie "mistakes" get overblown to epic proportions. If Gio and Brodie played exactly the same series, except

1) Peters doesn't irrationally demote Brodie in games 2 and 3
2) the rest of the team plays a better series

I don't think we would have lost in the first round. So singling Brodie out for some mistakes (and mistakes happen - to everyone on every team) just gets on my nerves.