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Originally Posted by ricardodw
In fact McDavid was by Hamilton and Brodie was coming on the the ice after a 25 second shift by Gio. Gio was replaced by Brodie as soon as McDavid touched the ice.
It wasn't so much splitting Hamilton and Brodie as Brodie angling in to cut off McDavid after he was around Hamilton.
There is a whole lot of dumping on Hamonic and Brodie when they were being asked to play against McDavid/Draistl/Maroon.
If they were having as bad a game as they were being blamed for maybe they should have been sheltered by the current (from the end of last season, not counting the playoffs) #1 ranking defense pair in the league.
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Giordano played 8:49 5 on 5 against McDavid with 44% of the shot attempts and a 3-5 split in high danger events.
Brodie was 5:51 against McDavid 5 on 5 with 33% of the shot attempts and a 1-7 split in high danger events.
So yeah the top unit did their job and the 2nd unit was sheltered, but there's not much they can do without the last change and against a guy that plays a lot.
Let your agenda go man, it doesn't fit the actual stats.