The Awesome Index: Brouwer’s Bash, Brooks’ Line is Best, and Braden Holtbeast

It was two days before Christmas 2006 when a 21 year old named Troy Brouwer played his first NHL game. He got four shifts that night for a total of less than three minutes. He didn’t play at all after the first period.
(He had a minus-one corsi differential that night, which I think someone should tell him. He’ll get a kick out of that.)
Four-hundred ninety-nine games later, Troy Brouwer has joined the 500 club. He did it in style with two goals. Longevity is laudable enough in this league, but Brouwer has scored 126 goals with 28 game-winners, won a Stanley Cup, danced Gangnam Style, and captured the imaginations of two seriously demented hockey fans.
Troy Brouwer is, in a word, awesome.
Here are some more awesome things in our world this week.
By Peter Hassett 8 years ago