There wasn't really room for another Brodie type D in Calgary's system, all of a sudden the Flames have a plethora of young defensemen...
Juuso Välimäki, Rasmus Andersson, and Connor Mackey are the future (maybe Noah Hanifin & Oliver Kylington too?) who will have the luxury of being mentored by Mark Giordano and Chris Tanev - who's shot blocking, leadership and physicality is needed more than what TJ had to offer.
During these next few seasons we will come to be familiar with the rest of our great young D platoon, Yan Kuznetsov, Jérémie Poirier, Ilya Solovyov, Alexander Yelesin, Carl-Johan Lerby, Johannes Kinnvall, Colton Poolman and Jake Boltmann.
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