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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Last season, yes. But as already noted, Brouwer was terrible by his own standards last year. There is every reason to expect that he will be better.
I guess we will see. The Flames have another $10 m coming off of the cap next year, with an extension owed to Michael Backlund. In 2019 they will lose Mike Smith's salary and will need to re-sign Matthew Tkachuk. If needed there will likely be an opportunity to move Brouwer in the last year of his deal. In the end I don't think his contract is so cripplingly prohibitive like Milan Lucic's or Loui Eriksson's long-term, big dollar deals.
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Sure, but a player that has been moving around as much as he has leads you to believe that he's simply not playing well enough to justify his salary anywhere he's been. If he doesn't find magic beans and turn his game around significantly, he might not even be playing in the NHL during the last year of his deal. I would be pleased with a 15 goal 30 point Brouwer if he were playing a much more intense brand of hockey with any sort of regularity.
Guys like him don't typically improve their skating/offensive abilities in their twilight years and these are already becoming a question mark.