Confirmed with Link: Flames sign Troy Brouwer 4 years $18 mill
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Overall very happy with this signing. Brouwer was on my list of top UFAs for Calgary to target. The contract should be a year less and the cap hit isn't excellent, but he should be able to play somewhere in our top 6 effectively. Him and Johnny should be money together.
Anglesmith
Setting up the play?
Iggy prime was the most complete player in the league. Maybe he brings 7/10 of the quality on 7/10 factors.
Lunatik
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He's definitely not as good as Iggy was, but he does definitely check all of those boxes, but in addition I would say he is better defensively and a better PKer than Iggy. I think being a poor mans Iggy would be a pretty apt description of him.
SmellOfVictory
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Aside from being lightyears worse offensively, the two do have some similar traits. I think it's fair to say he brings 7/10 discrete attributes that Iggy brought, but he's maybe 30% the player.
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The better comparisons are probably Langkow or Conroy but much more physical.
I think people fail to realize how big of a physical element he is bringing to this team. Since the season lost to lockout Brouwer has more hits per game than any player (forward or defense) to play at leas 100 games for the Flames. Ferland with 97 games is the only Flames with at least 15 games to average more hits per game than Brouwer. I do not feel this can be understated, his hits per game among forwards over the last 11 seasons is top 30 in the league among players to have played 100+ games. We aren't talking Matt Martin, Cal Clutterbuck, Chris Neil or Dustin Brown type numbers, but in the same neighborhood as Alex Ovechkin, Milan Lucic, Brenden Morrow... etc.
With the addition of Brouwer and Chaisson, combined with a healthy Bouma and a developing Ferland, Bennett and Hathaway (maybe Tkachuk too) the Flames could actually be in the top half of the league in hits.
Johnny Hoxville
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Meh I think this won't be a great deal once everything is done and finished and we have hindsight. I'm more worried that this prevents us from re-signing Backlund who I thought we should've locked up long term (sigh).
