I've never wanted a player to prove me wrong more than Brayden. We gave up a lot to get him, & We've pretty much gone through 2 years of gross underachievement due to our lack of depth on D. 2 years of growing pains watching and waiting for this guy to figure it out. It was a weird and odd feeling seeing him out there make mistake after mistake, take penalty after penalty, get outsped and outsmarted night in and night out... it had been SO long that there was a player on this team I actually didn't like.... it was like those bad years in late 90's / pre 2010 era, where it seemed like there were about 2 or 3 players on my favorite team where I actually felt grossed out that they were on the ice.
I clicked on this link hoping to see a bunch of WTF posts, but there are a lot of people happy-ish w/ the deal. I'm not quick to jump aboard, Dean has brought us the cup HALLELUJAH, and hopefully he sees something I don't. I will be the first to eat crow IF this guy comes around and does more good than bad. Right now I see a guy that does not have the foot-speed nor the brain-speed to handle this league... but yay physicality right?
bottomline: UGH.