The problem with Brouwer on the PP is that the coaches had no idea how to use him to his strengths. They would either put him as a screen or on the half wall. When really he has been effective on the PP in the past in trigger man role higher in the slot between the circles (occupied by Monahan on our First Unit).
Brouwer actually had a decent history of PP production prior to his time in Calgary.
17/18: 0 Goals
16/17: 5 Goals (in 74 GP)
15/16: 7 Goals
14/15: 8 Goals
13/14: 12 Goals
13: 7 goals (in 47 GP)
With some examples of how he scored those goals:
There is a pattern of where he is scoring those goals from. So once again it comes down to the coaching staff not seeing that Brouwer's shot and release is actually one of his strengths, and instead they kept putting him in a spot where he was bound to fail on the PP.
From day 1 him and Monahan should have been on separate units, with each of them being the trigger man from the slot for unit 1 and 2 respectively.
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