“He’s steady as she goes,” Boudreau says. “When the team is playing better, he shines a little better because he just does his job. When the team is not doing its job, he probably sticks out more because he has to cover up for more people. He’s just a meat and potatoes guy, get the puck, dump it out and try not to be too fancy with it. It works for him.”


I was about. They saw that I was capable of playing at this level. They brought me back and I was happy to come back to a familiar place that I enjoy.” Even with being a six-year veteran of the league and a staple of the Ducks now,


Brookbank still takes the same approach of never taking anything for granted. He says he never enters a training camp comfortable about his spot, a philosophy that has worked well for him. “You just have to keep pushing yourself,” says Brookbank, who scored his only NHL


goal on March 31, 2009 at Edmonton. “If you don’t, there is always someone who is coming up and wants your spot. There are a lot of good hockey players out there and there is not a lot of separation between us. I’m not going to get too comfortable and think I’m above anything.” More than halfway through the 2011-12 campaign, Brookbank was on pace to break


his career high for games played (only missed two of the team’s first 48 games played). Playing an average of 14:28 per night, he was third on the Ducks in both blocked shots (63) and plus/minus (plus-five) during that span. “He’s steady as she goes,” Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau says. “When the team


is playing better, he shines a little better because he just does his job. When the team is not doing its job, he probably sticks out more because he has to cover up for more peo- ple. He’s just a meat and potatoes guy, get the puck, dump it out and try not to be too fancy with it. It works for him.” #


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