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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Yep. Rasmus is making Brodie money and nowhere near the player at the moment. That pairing is expensive and really playing poorly.
This ship has seemingly sprung leaks everywhere.
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Anderson needs to mature and play better but Gio has been trending to awful since last season as he was terrible in the playoffs and has been poor a lot of the season. Brodie had the wheels to cover for him and Rasmus doesn't. It's not a good pairing but outside of Tanev I'm not sure there's a defenseman on the roster that's going to look good paired with Gio. IMO it's time to pair Valimaki with Anderson and have Gio on the 3rd pairing. Demoting the captain is always a difficult decision but the good organizations are decisive and aren't sentimental about these things as it's a business of winning hockey games.