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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Brouwer has been contributing in the ways you would expect from guys like Stajan and Bouma and nowhere near what is expected of a $4.5 million player. Offensively he's killing that line but as long as the team is winning you have to keep with the formula as players not scoring can contribute in other ways as Brouwer did last night. However if he doesn't come alive in the playoffs I'm really hoping he's left unprotected and taken by Vegas in the expansion draft as that contract is horrendous for what he's bringing this team on a nightly basis.
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He's contributing as much or more than Stajan & Bouma. Stajan is only paid $1.375m less than Brouwer, but Brouwer has 5 more goals and kills all the penalties. Is $1.375m really the magic number which transfers the Whipping-Boy target from Stajan's arse to Brouwer's?
Brouwer has had an outlier season, production wise, but he's the kind of guy we'll need down the stretch run. We're now entering the part of the season where a guy with a Cup ring and a tonne of experience is going to earn his pay check. When some of our younger guys wilt under the pressure in the Playoffs this guy is going to step up and justify his price tag, just like Engelland did a couple of years ago.