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Yes, Green has deployed Guddy like a bottom-pairing dman for most of this season when he has had a healthy corps.

There was lots of talk this year the Gudbranson camp felt the way he was being deployed didn’t play to his strengths.

Apparently, it is going to change moving forward.

Green went out of his way to meet with Guddy to work this out, and the pair sure have a connection too.

Guddy on Green: “ I think that was a big part of this whole process. I knew I wanted to talk to the coach. He ended up grabbing me.

“He has a good relationship with my agency, they represented him when he was playing.

“It was a big thing to me to speak to the coach and see what the future has in store in his eyes and his views.

“It was a really good conversation.”

So what is the future for Gudbranson on a Green team?

Guddy said he is in line for a bigger role moving forward.

Guddy: “We’ve come to figure as a team that my role like this is a lot more suitable and you get a better product out of me if I am playing against that.

“Things are going to change and that was also a part of our conversation, and I am totally fine with that, but I think he’s come to figure he can get a lot out of me if I am doing that.

“Not that he wasn’t before, but that is the kind of stuff that I love doing.

“The pairing I am part of right now gives me a little more purpose on the back end.

“Stuff like that gets me going.

“It excites me, making guys’ nights miserable.

“I have been able to do that and I felt comfortable out there. That certainly gave me a positive mindset going into the negotiations.”