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Old 03-18-2018, 05:53 PM   #873
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Originally Posted by Ashasx View Post
I have no basis for this belief, but I think Burke had a lot of pull in the acquisition of Brouwer. Just never seemed like a Treliving move.
Brouwer was the best available RHS RW on the UFA list that year. Which was a bad UFA year. I don't think it had much to do with Burkies Truculuence theory at all. Flames had Frolik and that was it on RW. and the message was get a RHS. they did, it was Brouwer, it has been largely unsuccsessful.
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