Its no secret Troy Brouwer has underperformed this year. He surely isn't playing like somebody who makes 4.5 million. Brouwer has 10 goals, 11 assists, 21 points in 58 games this year. He is also a -10 on the year. 9 of his points have came on the powerplay, but just recently Michael Ferland took over his powerplay spot. Brouwer missed 8 games because of a broken finger from a slap shot from Kris Versteeg. Brouwer has been all over the Flames lineup. He used to be on the first line with Gaudreau and Monahan, the he was moved to the Fourth were he only played a few games, than he was put with Bennett and Versteeg where he has been for the 7 game win streak. With the Curtis Lazar trade and Michael Ferland's
play of late. It has opened up many questions about if the Flames have any plan to protect Brouwer in the upcoming expansion draft. Because if the Flames use the format of 7-3-1 (which I think they will) One of Brouwer, Lazar or Ferland will be left unprotected, and Treliving wants Lazar to stick around. Whether Brouwer is protected or not will rely on his performance in the final stretch of the season and possibly the playoffs. Brouwer has had success in the playoffs, scoring the series winning goal against Chicago in the first round of last years playoffs. In St Louis's playoff run last year, Brouwer had 8 goals, 5 assists, 13 points in 20 playoff games, which are pretty good numbers. But still, Troy Brouwer has not played up to expectations in Calgary this year, so if he wants to stick around, he needs to up his game a lot in the final 16 games.
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