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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
TheScorpion was actually suggesting that Neal, unlike Brouwer, had a positive impact on some of his teammates. That really wasn't the case last year. He hurt everyone he played with regularly. Tkachuk, in 100 minutes of playing together having less shots against but nearly the same less shots for, isn't exactly a ringing endorsement.
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But it was? Did you not read the graph I presented? Neal improved both Gaudreau and especially Tkachuk defensively in their limited minutes together with marginal negative impact on their offense.
Here's Brouwer's chart from 2016-17 by the way, see if you can spot a bit of a difference:
Brouwer was uniquely deleterious. Neal is not close to his level of ineptitude.