Brodie’s career-high 4 assists help Flames blaze past Devils
NEWARK, N.J. — Calgary defenceman TJ Brodie finished off the best game of his career in style, setting up a winning goal in overtime.
Brodie picked up his fourth assist of the game by making a pin-point pass to a wide open Mikael Backlund 1:13 into overtime and the Flames beat New Jersey 4-3 on Friday night to send the Devils to their seventh straight loss at home.
“I’d like to take some credit for that,” Flames coach Glen Gulutzan said. “I had a long meeting with TJ Brodie this morning and I told him I wanted him to shoot more and wanted him to shoot some pucks and not pass so much and make sure he’s putting pucks on the net. And he gets four assists, so he didn’t listen to me at all.
“So I’m going to take credit for those four assists.”