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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I'm willing to accept that Brouwer had an off year but what I see from you as trying to find an excuse for the off year. This excuse about a bad hand is for a player who has never shown his hands are a large part of his game.
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I would prefer to call it an explanation rather than an excuse, but I suppose that is splitting hairs a bit.
The point here is an important one that continues to be ignored by a significant number of posters:
Troy Brouwer has historically been a +15 goal / + 35 point player. Why would we not attempt to find reasons for such a sizeable drop in production in the course of a single season?
In as much as I am viewed by some as too willing to extend to Brouwer the benefit of doubt that he is actually a competent top-nine NHL forward, then I would expect his detractors to concede likewise: that you have unfairly ignored Brouwer's career output in favour of this current narrative in which he is a borderline NHL player.
HE IS NOT.