On Monday afternoon, Frank Seravalli from DailyFaceoff.com mentioned Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman T.J. Brodie as a buyout option, and Hockey Twitter had an impromptu dunk fest.
Since he arrived in Toronto in 2020, Brodie has been the Toronto Maple Leafs best defensive defenseman, possible their best overall defenseman.
He was not effective in the playoffs, and his stats were drastically down from the regular season
During round one against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the defense pairing of Brodie and Jake McCabe kept Nikita Kucherov and Bradon Point to zero goals while playing 5v5, so it’s not like the results were even that bad, even if the Leafs were outplayed when he was on the ice.