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Originally Posted by GoJetsGo
I'm of the opinion that Brouwer is a black hole that makes any line-mates he plays with worse.
So whether we put him in the press box, Stockton, or buy him out, I'd prefer any of those options over icing him in any capacity as I think he's a net negative.
Our bottom six was a big problem for us this last season, and having him out of it would would be addition by subtraction in my opinion. Your suggestion he wasn't the worst player on the bottom line last year is disingenuous in my opinion. I think any rookies or struggling players paired with him were worse off as a result.
Regardless, I don't view it as a "colossal mistake" to buy him out and thought that was extremely over-stated.
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I’m not going to try to defend Brouwer too much because I don’t think his play up to this point has warranted any. But with the shear amount of cap space we have, I personally don’t think there’s any need in adding dead money to the 21-22 season when we might actually need the space then. Brad Treliving is the gm of this team and he’ll make the final decision on it, but I can almost guarantee that he’ll look at from same standpoint.