Quoting: CD282
He's better offensively, but defensively he's a work in progress. Broberg was a much better 2-way player at the same age, in the same league.
Broberg isn't physical at all though, which at a certain point he needs to figure that out.
He doesn't defend well enough with his stick/skating right now to get away with almost no physical presence.
Jiricek over commits defensively, somewhat like Nurse when he was younger, gets almost too puck focused at times and makes mistakes because of it.
But he is very very good at reading the play and also wins a lot of net front/corner battles due to his size.
I personally would take Jiricek's defensive style over Brobergs because he will likely mature and stop over committing, however idk if Broberg is gunna learn to be physical/"mean" (I hope he does).
Again though it's a personal preference, some people would prefer Brobergs style of defending.