Like it or not, Brouwer is likely here to stay another year.
My hope is that if Brouwer continues to be as ineffective as he has been, then he at least gets relegated to the revolving press-box position. Lazar at least adds speed and fairly good forechecking pressure - something that a 4th line needs to do.
Brouwer does make good defensive reads and he does surprisingly good things with the puck, but moments later he ends up turning the puck over. I made mention of this more than a few times last season. I can't see the Flames wanting to have that buy-out on the books for 4 years either, but maybe next off-season it happens. Ideally Peters finds a way to utilize Brouwer more effectively, though how exactly he would do so stumps me.
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