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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
Can you imagine how many fewer PP goals against if we didn’t put Brouwer out there?
The PK isn’t good so your solution isn’t to fix it but to instead just “take less penalties” that’s only solving part of the problem, because penalties happen and you have to be able to reasonably kill them off
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Do you even know how many shorthanded goals Troy Brouwer has been on the ice for? He's 6th on the team in short handed ice time so he's not even a primary guy out there.
Also the problem isn't necessarily their penalty killing proficiency, they're 16th, that's league average. So at worst, Brouwer is probably average, but unless you have the actual number that proves he's terrible, your point is foolish.
The real problem is that they take too many penalties and aren't the best at killing them off, so ideally, take less penalties which will equate to less goals allowed. Your boy Sam Bennett is also the poster boy for this issue. When you take as many minor penalties as you score points, you're not helping your team whereas someone like Gaudreau, who helps this team by scoring a lot more points while only taking a handful of minors.