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Originally Posted by Insufficient Funds
You can easily protect both.
Johnny
Monahan
Bennett
Backlund
Frolik
Brouwer
Ferland
Expose Bouma and Stajan. Was there another forward you wanted to protect? Maybe a signed Versteeg?
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Why protect Brouwer though given he's had minimal impact on the team? If he doesn't get picked up you hope that he plays better next season but if he does get picked up you free up $4 million to spend on a player that's going to have more impact for your team. I can see why Treliving brought in Brouwer but in his first season the return has not been worth the price so if you have a chance to move on why wouldn't you use that? He's the type of player an expansion team may want to add like say Scott Mellanby was for the Panthers.