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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
In what way has he been better? Because we have won 3 in a row? In which he has had zero contribution? Or because he finally stuck up for a teammate?
Sometimes a win streak makes people forgive bad play by individual players or be blinded by it but Brouwer has been average to down right awful in every game so far. Just like he was last season.
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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
...last season he had a few good games sprinkled in every now and then as well and would always fall back on old habits. I'm not buying he's a different player when we have the first 7 or 8 periods where he looked bad and then a couple where he got a little involved.
I feel he a disappointed us so much that him even skating hard is seen as such a positive when it should be a given for a player in his role.
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This is why people are taking issue with your posts about Brouwer. You flat out stated that he was at best average in last night's game, but then you concede that while he was not bad, your opinion of him is coloured intensely by your own history of disappointment.
I think these two comments demonstrate quite emphatically that your thoughts and feelings about Brouwer are NOT based purely on his game-by-game performance, and are rather formed by your long, deep-seeded abhorrence of him as a player. That is the very definition of an "irrational" perspective that is informed entirely by past experiences and expectations in spite of what is actually taking place.