Brouwer shouldn’t be bought out, he should just be waived if he’s still bad under a new coach
The team can afford to eat the buried cap hit for two years
If he is waived you really think any team would take him? Even if we put him in the AHL, you can't bury contracts anymore so the cap hit is still on the team. Unless you mean we can afford to eat a $4.5 mil cap hit, in which case he should be in the press box.
His buyout cap hit is $1.5 mil for 4 years, Flames are only eating $1.5m in 3 years time (we're saving $3mil in the meantime). Unless Bennett and Janko both break out in a huge way, there is no way the Flames will be suffering because of the $1.5 mil buy out.
He should most definitely be bought out (unless there is a guarantee he is in the pressbox for 82 games). Forget his cap-hit, giving this clown ice-time is just stupid, he does nothing. No one should defend this guy, he sucks, he offers nothing to the team. Get over him, it's over, he's done, pack it in, close it up, the clock has struck midnight.