A Brouwer buyout next off-season would result in a $1.5 million cap hit for the next 4 seasons. Not ideal but manageable if Brouwer continues his terrible play.
If you don't count Stajan with only one year left on his deal, Brouwer is the only bad contract on the Flames. Probably a better situation than most teams.
Other contracts that might turn into bad ones would be Giordano's if his play declines significantly. Stone if the advance stat guys are correct or Smith if he can't be at least an average quality goalie.
If he does apparently 10 years of being so awful that a ways back there was a Glass-Crosby scale means nothing.
That said I'm still not sure he does...
Johnny Gaudreau
Matthew Tkachuk
Mark Jankowski
Curtis Lazar
Sean Monahan
Mikael Backlund
Sam Bennett
Matt Stajan
Michael Frolik
Kris Versteeg
Troy Brouwer
Micheal Ferland
... those are 12 guys I think we can be reasonably certain are on the roster. Beyond those 3 we have Glass, Hathaway, Gadzic, and Hamilton. The team is not going to carry 15 forwards and Hamilton is the only one that is both a center and on a one way so I think it's probable he makes it... so if they have 14F that leaves one spot for the other three (If the Flames don't sign Jagr, or pickup a guy on waivers, or trade for someone). So if the Flames don't get another body... Why would Glass get that spot?
Seriously, y'know the ol' phrase addition by subtraction? Well... Glass would be Subtraction by Addition.
Let's see him play well against NHL lineups. Plying well against the Canucks non-China roster means next to nothing.
Glass is a waste. Rather have Bouma
Would you rather have Glass at 650k on a 2-way deal or Bouma at 2.2m on a 1-way. Neither are good at hockey and I don't particularly want either on the flames but it's an easy decision in my mind.
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Would you rather have Glass at 650k on a 2-way deal or Bouma at 2.2m on a 1-way. Neither are good at hockey and I don't particularly want either on the flames but it's an easy decision in my mind.
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Well the Flames are paying Bouma this year and next and considering his $2.2 doesn't impact the salary structure of the team I rather Bouma.
I want nothing to do with the Flames signing a 34 year old middle weight face puncher who sucks badly at hockey and brings little to the team. Rather have Hathaway play that role instead of Glass
If Glass makes the team, whatever. He provides some toughness and if he's playing like garbage I'm sure Gulutzan will bench him / send to the minors, or Trevelyan will Grossman his ass outta here. Lineups in October rarely look exactly the same as lineups in April.
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somehow a few games against a bunch of rookies and farmhands outweighs 10 years of NHL play averaging 6.9 points per season. makes sense. I still can't figure out certain things about the coaching and management, where 90% of the time they're doing things that are progressive and then once in a while there's a random #gritchart decision thrown in just for fun.
