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Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!
Brouwer has had one bad season. Flames fans here acting like he didn't average 20 goals and 38 points over 7 consecutive seasons prior to that.
Matbe if he had a severe injury, or was in the sunset of his career, you could make a convincing argument that his NHL days are done. But he was just coming off of a dominant playoff performance at the end of yet-another 39 point season.
Maybe it was a coaching issue last year, maybe he got a bit fat and complacent on his new contract, I dont claim to know why he had a bad season.
But it's highly uncommon for someone to inexplicably go from being a key top-6 player on a contending team, to waiver-wire fodder with no future in the NHL, in the course of one summer.
He was terrible last season, no question. But I think it's foolish just to say "this is who he is now", and flush him without giving him a solid chance to put last season behind him and find his game again. Not just for his sake, but from an asset management standpoint.
Also, something something Lazar. The kid's been decent, but not somebody you go making roster moves for.
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I dunno man. The league is changing. It's getting younger and faster. If you are slow and getting older and having bad years you could be in trouble. See Hudler's fall and Glencross as well. Lots of these 30+ guys that used to be relied on are dropping off the face of the earth and fast and getting into PTO land.
I hope Brouwer changes my mind about him but I see buy out and out of the league pretty soon. There is nothing he has done in Calgary that gives me any hope for him.