Player Discussion Brady Tkachuk (LW) - Part XI

[vandelay]

The thing about breaking up the core, Brady isn’t committed to the city or the fans, he’s committed to this group of players and he wants to win with this group of players. If they change that core and move out one of Brady’s besties or a guy he thinks is key to the future, then suddenly Brady’s commitment to the team is shaken and broken. Brady wants to win with Norris, Chabot and the Nodal guys. He’s not interested in rebuilding the roster and trying again.

For this to work, Brady needs to back check

The truth is Brady won't start playing good defensive hockey until SS brings in Kevin Hayes. He's committed to winning as long as Hayes is on his line. Until then he's gonna do it his way.
He's also mentioned that every Timmys in the palladium needs to be replaced by a duncan donuts. Just in case you didn't pick up on the sarcasm in paragraph 1.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

You don't think so?

Mike Hoffman was better than Brady at D. Like I'm trying to remember a Senators players who was more clueless defensively than Brady and I'm coming up with a blank.

Spezza who got so much shit for his D was like 2x the defensive player.

Soezza was also such a juggernaut offensively he had to play defence like 5x less than Brady

 

[bicboi64]

Tkachuk was finally backchecking in the second half of last year, did he suddenly forget how to do that?

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Tkachuk was finally backchecking in the second half of last year, did he suddenly forget how to do that?

its one thing to backcheck... its the awareness away from the puck in the dzone.. he looks like a duck out of water. He needs hours in the film room.
Backchecking is the easy part