hated the contract from day one.
in fact, hated the signing the day before, when rumour came out that calgary was interested. a huge liability who is poor defensively, poor offensively, poor in transition. astonishing lack of both tools and smarts. no speed, no hands, horrible on the cycle. ok at screens but does nothing to help get the puck in a shooting position. as i said in the brouwer thread, he doesn't even block shots even though no one but bartkowski is stuck in their own end getting shot at more per minute of ice time. a truly horrendous player who makes his linemates worse about as much as Crosby makes his linemates better. can't stand to see him get gifted the a right off the bat and chances upon chances in the best scenarios and flub every single one and still get chances.
iirc there was a lot of hostility towards ppl who looked into analytics for brouwer and predicted this would happen. I can't believe the same gm who brought frolik also targeted this guy. hope to the gods that he's gone next year
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