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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Is Brodie really going to be traded?
How important is Gio to the Flames success?
Last season playing mostly with Brodie he won the Norris and was a +39.
The previous season playing with Hamilton he was +0
The 2018-19 Flames as a team scored 196 even strength goals and let in 156 es goal differential of 40
the 2017-18 Flames team scored 158 es and 169 against - a differential of -11
The Flames brain thrust has to thinking will Andersen / Hamonic or Valimaki playing his wrong side be better for Gio than Brodie?
a lot of Brodie's glaring mistakes were because he was quick enough and smart enough to get in position to make an apparently easy play that he goofed up.
Hamilton did not make these same glaring errors because he was so far out of position that Gio would have to be covering for him.
If the Flames trade Brodie will their next hole to be filled someone to play the big minutes with Gio?
Hard to overstate the importance of extending Gio's elite play at age 35.
If Brodie is to be traded he can go for a 1st and prospect at the trading deadline.... or if the Flames are solid contender at the deadline he can serve as their deadline addition.
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I think the goal is to trade TJ, but I don't think it's because the brain
thrust sees him as a negative on the roster. There's a lot to be said for TJs impact on Gio's game, yes, but I don't agree on how you've evaluated his goofs. He definitely went for an impressive play and came up short a few times but I don't think those are what people remember. Brodie routinely goofed on some pretty pedestrian plays and seemed to be thinking a step behind at times.
But you're ignoring the entire cap situation, which is the reason that Brodie's name comes up frequently. Andersson played great with Gio, and brings a little more stability to that line I think (especially this early in Andersson's career). I think the future of TJ as a Flame in the cap-era is coming to a close, so if you can get assets for TJ that makes the trade all the more worthwhile.
His salary, the need to recapture about that amout of salary, the Flames depth on D and a few options in his place that are the future of the Flames blue-line are all reasons TJ could be moved. His errors just make it difficult to argue that he's irreplaceable on the blueline. For as many TJ plays we can appreciate, he offers up a lot of costly mistakes that showed up on the scoreboard.
I think if the Wizard found a way to keep TJ a lot here would be on-board. But you could have read the thread to have known that was the general idea behind trading TJ.