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Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan
Of course he's not. It's TJ's 10th year playing for the Flames and has played with Gio for years. Give Rasmus some time and he'll get there. Peters has no business putting him in this position with his age, experience and tenure, but there aren't a lot of options sometimes, so his feet are to the fire. He's simply not ready.
I know lots of people (mostly on HF and Instagram, etc, not so much here) go on about TJ sucking and being the worst dman in the league, but people don't realize how much he does for the team. There was a great write up about him last week on the Flames' site. I know he makes some obvious mistakes, but you don't know what you have until it's gone (ie, the Gio-TJ pairing).
Not trying to be a homer.
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I'm way behind, watching on tape, but wanted to comment on this...
I agree 100%. Andersson is really coming along nicely, but it is a different game on the top pair, and he hasn't learned it yet. He hasn't been bad, but the big difference for me is that he neutralizes Giordano because Gio has to stay back.
Giordano-Brodie is a much better pairing.
I would still like to see:
Giordano-Brodie
Hanifin-Andersson
Kylington-Hamonic
because Hamonic can cover for Kylington. And Andersson can continue his development on the 2nd pair, with a quality partner.