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Originally Posted by N-E-B
Relative to expectations, yes. But this is some revisionist history. As bad as Neal was, his PPG last year was higher than Brouwer’s was in his last season here.
Brouwer was awful and probably one of the worst players to play on the Flames in the last decade. Neal was bad but he wasn’t Brouwer bad.
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Neal scored 19 points in 942 minutes of icetime.
Brouwer scored 22 points in 1058 of icetime.
Brouwer played 13:56 on one of the worst offensive teams in the league.
Neal played 14:57 on the second best offensive club in the league.
Neal averaged 2:12 on the powerplay, Brouwer averaged 1:14.
Brouwer played 2 minutes a game shorthanded. Neal played 1 minute shorthanded TOTAL over 63 games.
I know this is difficult to consider, but Neal is much worse than Brouwer was, and Brouwer was really bad.