When Valterri Filppula left, a massive hole was created on the third line and penalty kill for the New York Islanders. Filppula was a reliable piece to that Islanders team, and it seems like they finally found his replacement by signing Derick Brassard.
Brassard will almost certainly fill in on that third-line center role, and he should do a fine job in that role. Where he won’t have an impact is on the penalty kill.
Over the course of his career, the most amount of PK minutes he ever received was 19. There’s no way at 32 years old the Islanders decide to throw him out there for 100+ minutes on the penalty kill after being a nonfactor at that part of the game for his entire career.