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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think he's on the powerplay because of the one thing you didn't mention; net presence. He's the best on the team for going to the net outside of his obvious replacement Tkachuk.
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but how do you even measure who's the best net-front presence? he's not tipping pucks past goalies on their way in or tucking rebounds, and is there any way to determine how many Brouwerplay goals are due to screens he's created?
I think the simple answer is he's one of the very scarce forwards with RH shot and that's it. but that does no good when he flubs most of the shot attempts that come his way (which is not often because he doesn't have a good feel for where the puck's going).