To be honest, in regard to Brandt, we’ve really only seen him play a handful of shifts and a bit off YouTube.
It’s very early days but I think that the lack of ice time given to him last night possibly shows the amount of faith Skalde has in his actual ability to play any sort of role further than being a body on the forth line that can give guys a rest, throw a few hits and disrupt the opposition in short shifts and get the crowd going.
I hope I’m wrong and there is a lot more to his game, but I’m not optimistic at this point.
I do love being wrong though, it’s something I’ve had a lot of practice at