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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Giordano had a bad playoff but he was by far and away the Flames' best defenseman this year
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It’s a toss up and I could see a case being made for either player. But Gio looked horrible after the stoppage and at his age it’s a complete question mark whether he’s able to bounce back. Over the course of the season Brodie was more important to the team IMO.
All this to say that I think we’re going to miss Brodie’s play a lot, and it seems to me like the best we can hope for with Tanev is a guy who is maybe still able to play in the top 4. It’s entirely possible he becomes a whipping boy in fairly short order and doesn’t add anything more than what we had with Hamonic.
Still way too many questionable holes on this team for me to believe that going from Talbot to Markstrom makes them significantly better. They might very well be worse.