Edited Nov. 2, 2019 at 11:52 p.m.
Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy
Brodie has a young family and if traded, will likely extend with whoever he is traded to. He is a similar player in skill to Faulk though so you are looking at around 5.5-6M extension depending on term.
We can't afford the extension next year, this move would be similar to what Winnipeg did with Hayes i think. Just a rental for around half a season or less.. Except if he takes a huge discount, which i'm sure he won't. Like 1 year deal ~ 3 million range.
So we just need strong defense depth in playoffs. Currently, when Hedman is injured, we are toast.
Yes you can say that to Washington with Carlson, or Toronto with Riley, or even Burns for SJ, but for other teams, looks like their best D is never injured. However, this might be the decline of Hedman starting with those frequent injuries, and this is really hurting our team.
At least Brodie could help fill that gap, when eventually Hedman will be injured again.
Another bad thing i'm seeing: Even Cernak is injured often, or gets into a fight, and we get 3 goals in 5 minutes, while he is serving his penalty on the bench.
It's just bad coaching or idk, but whenever bad things happen with our D since playoffs last year... we are just doomed... and completely done...
Our defense when we have injury = AHL level. I know you can blame the forwards and the coaching and the system which we play in... but still... i never see those big problems lately with other teams... and one thing for sure: you can't teach Kucherov or Johnson to defend... so we have to rely on D almost 80% to stop the 40 shots/game madness... End result: 3.5 goals /game. So we would need to score 4 goals to win each night. Looks impossible in the playoffs, where injuries will 100% happen to every team, and it seems for us injuries are just always the end of our playoff run.... unless we strengthen our D and making more D pairs, who can shutdown the opponent in important moments...
It's incredible how bad Rutta is on defense = we are doomed whenever he plays on the D... same with schenn, let me tell you one example there was an attack in our zone. Schenn just skated by the forwards and the forwards was 50 cm around our goalie having multiple high danger scoring chances. That's how bad Schenn is... He just skates by forwards and let them do whatever they want.(= allowing goals) He just looked into other direction for 0.5 seconds and that's just an AHL level defender. Yes it was his first or second game in the season, but still that's unacceptable if we want to win the cup this year. I think Brodie can help with that big time... currently our team = top10-top14 team in the NHL and that usually means = no cup.
I know in theory this first 40 games should be preseason for us... but it just still hurt to see my team play that badly. Our goal was to be a defensive minded team this year + take the fewest penalties in the league.
End result for first 12 games:
Goals allowed:around last in NHL
shots allowed: around last in NHL
penalties taken: around leading the NHL
and i thought Vasilevsky will have 2.25 GAA and .930+ Save percentage
I watched this year so many games with other teams, and i don't understand how our D is so bad compared to almost every other team. Even winnipeg without 1 normal D men are capable of defending like a regular NHL team. We should never ever depend on Hedman, like we do currently, this needs to change... yeah i know we let witkovski go, after he had bad advanced numbers.... but i don't think that will help... something needs to change in next 2-3 months or rip dreams for every tampa fan
also what the freak is wrong with our PK...
our PK = like vs columbus in playoffs = worst in the NHL, WTF? we had the best PK just 8-10 months ago... IN THE WHOLE NHL... now around last place.. WTF just happend... why the sudden change in playoffs for PK... this is crazy... we play Coburn on PK = 100% goal every PK.... how the coach can't see that Coburn is old and slow and doesn't have the skill to kill PK. Just let any other player kill PK, than Coburn.
Is it hard to see? Or sign some good PK killer defenders... if not Brodie... then others... PK should be never be this bad for a contender...
I hope Kucherov comes back to life at least... he was horrible in all games this season almost...
It's like Kucherov = everyday 3 mill caphit NHL player currently....
vs compared to last year = MVP of the NHL
WTF just happend with Kucherov??? How can he not make 1 good pass/ game? Is he resting for playoffs or what? Good tactics to fool the opponents... but i hope we can make the playoffs with bad hockey...
I just watched McDavid the other night = he was flying on the ice, he made a joke from Carlson = best D of this year so far... same with Crosby... what just happend with kucherov... i have no idea.... i hope you know it ... hahaha
Sorry for writing too much... but i had to.... it's so annoying to watch bad hockey... i hope something changes by January...
PS: since i wrote Hamonic had bad games.... all calgary matches all im seeing from canadian commentators = Hamonic is a god = best D in our team, and yes i see him actually played much better than those early games... so i understand now even more why calgary wants to keep him... probably 7 mill caphit...