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Originally Posted by New Era
Bull####. Brouwer, for all his warts, has a history of being a productive NHL player. Ryan has two ####ing years under Bill Peters where he was marginally a contributing NHL player. For crying out loud, Ryan has a single season of 15 goals. Brouwer has met or exceeded that seven times. I hate Brouwer with the passion of 10,000 suns, but he’s is a better player than Ryan. He actually has some history beind his game. Ryan would not be in the NHL without the favorable playing time provided by Bill Peters. Put Ryan in Brouwer’s role and he doesn’t come close to those 30some points. He’s more of a 15-20 player in GG’s system.
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Literally 99% of the analytics community was calling the Brouwer signing a complete and utter failure from the moment he signed. He had dragged his teammates down throughout his entire career and was on the wrong side of 30 when he signed, which is a HUGE deal for that type of player.
We all saw this coming.
Ryan is the complete opposite of Brouwer. Much better player.