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Originally Posted by Tinordi
All those media puff pieces about Brouwer coming home this summer just before and after he signed were intended to show how a good a signing it was. However, at the time, I read them with consternation. We're paying a guy good money on a long term so he can land in a comfortable place to play out the rest of his career? Yeah, not a great situation.
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I don't know if it is coincidence, bad leadership on an ongoing basis, poor coaching motivation, something about the Calgary water or just bad luck with particular individuals, but look at our recent signings of "power" forwards - Borque, Glencross, Bouma, Ferland, Brower- they have sucked/coasted after signing "good" contracts. Again, maybe just coincidence, but I would say don't give a banger more than 1 year - it's hard to motivate yourself to hurt your body if you have security and don't feel you have anything to prove...