These two centres on the Marlies are nearly identical

Did you know that Adam Brooks and Frederik Gauthier are almost exactly one year apart in age? It’s weird, isn’t it, that Brooks seems so much the rookie and Gauthier so much the guy we’ve seen that time, then again, and again, six feet five all day long, and a few other immutable things as well.

But what is Brooks if he isn’t really a very young rookie? That’s a good question.

Well, there’s the answer! They’re one and the same, centres in the AHL, close in age, not very good, and enough not very good, that on the team that turned the offence dial nearly as high as it can go, they were both still not very good. Okay, that’s it, we can all go to the beach now.

Ah, but you know these players, at…