Traded Erik Brännström - D - Part III
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Micklebot
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Which is close to 5'9 than it is to 6'
Besides, the sens own media guide for training camp last year listed him at 5'9, he's likely 5'9½ and wherever you pulled that from rounded up.
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AchtzehnBaby
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Which is close to 5'9 than it is to 6'
Besides, the sens own media guide for training camp last year listed him at 5'9, he's likely 5'9½ and wherever you pulled that from rounded up.
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He is 178 cms or just over 5’-10”
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Which is close to 5'9 than it is to 6'
Besides, the sens own media guide for training camp last year listed him at 5'9, he's likely 5'9½ and wherever you pulled that from rounded up.
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Yup. Some sites say 5'10, but he is clearly closer to 5'9, imo. Regardless, definitely undersized for a defender, especially his frame. He doesn't have that Ryan Ellis build I was hoping he'd posssess. Then again he's only 22, he may grow that this next year. Similar to Nylander in past few years.
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Brannstrom is not 5'10 lol.
I will not be arguing this with anyone.
It is a fact.
I will not be arguing this with anyone.
It is a fact.
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If our media guide is saying 5'9 I'd take that over NHL.com given that the team does physicals every year at the start of camp and if anything is incentivized to say he's bigger than he is rather than smaller. No way he is 5'10.NHL.com -
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He is 178 cms or just over 5’-10”
Lots of good pieces there but face offs are a huge part of PK. If Pinto can figure out faceoffs at the NHL level like he did in college he’ll be a lock there and hopefully Kastelic will force his way onto the PK as well.
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Which is close to 5'9 than it is to 6'
Besides, the sens own media guide for training camp last year listed him at 5'9, he's likely 5'9½ and wherever you pulled that from rounded up.
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My bet is closer to 5'8 .
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He was 5'9 at the combine but I guess with the weight of the Sens rebuild resting on his shoulders he shrunk a bit...
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Platform running shoes. All that weight training can compress you a little. Lies
He may be and they are usually right but sometimes wrong. I heard 5'8 on TSN 1200 and I trust them.
Combine measurements are the only reliable measurements. I cannot find Brannstrom’s true combine measurements but he is definitely not 5’10” at the moment and I doubt he was really 5’9” at the combine.
Larionov
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100%. NHL heights are often overstated, and the weights they give are often inaccurate also. It's like the NFL Combine - guys arrive there and they suddenly shrink two inches and lose 20 pounds from the numbers listed by their respective NCAA teams. Brannstrom is likely 5'8", maybe 5'9" on a good day. He's nowhere close to being 5'10".
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Because they won without Girard means you can't win with a sub 6 foot defenceman? That logic makes no sense.
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Problem isn’t his height. The guy is just slow and isn’t shifty. Add that with and inaccurate shot and you have an underwhelming player.
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The off-season, where we collectively forget his decent to good play and convince ourselves Brannstrom is shite.
Larionov
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I've noticed that - his shot looks awfully weak in comparison to most defensemen. Dude needs to find the directions to the weight room if he wants to find his true potential...
bert
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No shot he is that tall. People can see how small he is. If you're a D his size you need to be an either incredible skater or built like a fire hydrant. He unfortunately is neither.
How many sub 6 ft d men do you see Tampa dress.... How many sub 6'2 d men do you see Tampa dress? It's not impossible obviously but you have to be a special player to stay healthy enough to go deep and defend at that level. When you watch Brannstrom do you see 'special player'?
I don't mind Brannstrom as a depth regular season guy. But if I'm rolling into the playoffs I don't want him in my top 6. If he is... It's not going to be a very long spring.
I used to enjoy watching Francis Bouillon play. Not because he was great or anything but it was impressive seeing a guy listed at 5’8 (no way he was that tall, relatively speaking) hold his own.
200lbs on his frame certainly qualified as a fire hydrant.
