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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
A player that puts up 40ish points every year is not a borderline 3rd liner.
He had a terrible year, let's just call it what it is.
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Sam Gagner had 50 points last season and few would even call him a 3rd liner.
"Lines" are based on even strength usage and production and historically Brouwer's ES production rate is close to high end fourth liner and low end 3rd liners. That was before this last year.
What Brouwer is though, like Gagner albeit not stylistically, is a power play specialist.
Call a spade a spade, he's a borderline 3rd liner who is a power play specialist. When he isn't playing like he did last year, which at ES was below 4th line level.
Brouwer might bounce back to a 35 point forward, but that doesn't mean he will be a difference make outside of the PP. Borderline 3rd liner is apt. You're still better off with a real solid 3rd liner on your 3rd line. Regardless of what Brouwer does on the PP. A real solid 3rd liner should hit 30+ points without copious power play time to pad stats on.