Calgary Flames place Troy Brouwer on unconditional waivers

The Calgary Flames have placed Troy Brouwer on unconditional waivers for the purpose of a buyout which has answered all Flames fans prayers.

The bird are singing in Calgary today. That sounds harsh, but it seems like every Flames fan is (finally) in a good mood today. The Calgary Flames have placed Troy Brouwer on unconditional waivers for the purpose of a buyout.

It seemed likely that they were going to be doing this seeing how the Flames only had about $3 million to sign Noah Hanifin and Hunter Shinkaruk. It’s nice that Brad Treliving has been finally buying out players when he’s exhausted other options.

Per NHL Numbers, if bought out, Brouwer will have a cap hit of $1.5 million for the next four seasons, which seems much more manageable than $4.5 million for the next two seasons.

I somewhat feel bad for Brouwer, though. He seems like a nice and funny guy who has adorable dogs. But nice shouldn’t get you $4.5 million to basically be a fourth-line grinder. It sounds mean, but he has definitely not lived up to what he was supposed to.

Last season, he had just six goals and 22 points in 76 games. A decline from his previous 13 goals and 25 points the season before, which was also a disappointment. Up until this season, Brouwer was on an NTC, which changed to a modified NTC this season.

If bought out, the Flames will then have a little over $6 million to sign Hanifin and re-sign Hunter Shinkaruk, meaning that we could potentially see Hanifin sign a longer term contract for more money than initially thought of maybe a four-year contract with a cap hit of slightly below four million. It could still happen, but the Flames now have the option.

I like this move and it seems like many Flames fans on Twitter do too.