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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 7, 2023 at 8:52 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 6, 2023 at 3:13 p.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MatthewsFan</b></div><div>By no means am I suggesting they move him for the sake of it, there has to be a corresponding move to fill it. TOR needs an injection of skill, mobility, and puck movement into their group of defensemen.

For Brodie, his age, decline in play, and having 1 year left on his deal are reasons I want to explore a trade.

<div class="tweet"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What's the excuse now Leafs fans lmao</p>— Owen (@OWNSLive) <a href="https://twitter.com/OWNSLive/status/1655385698260664320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">May 8, 2023</a></blockquote>

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Warning signs are there

This team needs to get some more offence outside of Rielly
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Brodie wasn’t signed for offence, that’s never been his purpose on the team, and you don’t need 6 defencemen to put up points (Low D scoring is an effect of Sheldon Keefe’s system, not our defencemen). Brodie provides something that no other D on the team does. He’s elite in his own zone and elite on the penalty kill. We don’t have anyone else doing that. Without him, we have no shutdown pairings.

As for his “decline,” he just had his best season in the last 3 years according to Wins Above Replacement, which a better metric for judging defencemen than any counting stats or +/-. Not sure what decline you’re talking about that exists in reality. He plays well with the puck in the D zone, uses his body effectively without needing to throw hits.