Brad Isbister will probably be the shortest writeup I have. In fact I wasn’t even sure I was going to do a writeup on him at all. After all he didn’t play 20 games during the regular season, which was pretty much the minimum I was going for….But yet, I feel he is a player worth spending a few minutes talking about.

Brad Isbister pretty much is a what you see is what you get kinda guy. The guy works his tail off out there, is willing to drive the net, dig it out in the corners, skate back hard to cover up on plays, and brings size and grit to the lineup. While his metrics are relatively high, they are rather misleading. The guys overall average is a rather obscene 81 for a guy so low on the depth chart. But really this is because he does a few things very very well, most of the things rather well, but the most important things, very poorly. Lets face it, the guy cant shoot, cant pass, cant score, cant stickhandle well, and has poor offensive instincts out there. He makes up for it in other aspects which raise his overall score, but those things probably should be weighted more (maybe next year ill write up a complicated formula).

Brad would probably be best off being the captain of the Wolfpack for us next year, and most likely won’t sniff NHL ice with the big club. This isn’t a slight against him, its more a praise for the depth this team has, and the fact that we have enough cap space to make a splash if we want to.

I like Brad as a player, hes a good guy to have on the club, but sometimes you can have too many minions, and not enough generals, that is the case with the Rangers, and should be something remedied by giving his roster spot to a minion above him, and having everyone pushed down with the signing of a real big name free agent.

-Inferno

Posted by inferno272 on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 8:24 pm.