Less than a month after being bought out, Troy Brouwer has been signed to a one-year, $850,000 contract by the Florida Panthers. He’s not the player he once was, but it’s a gamble worth taking.

The IceHogs’ 2007-2008 team was especially notable for all the players who would later help the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup. There was Bickell, Crawford, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Troy Brouwer ...

The latest saw the Blues defeat the then-reigning Stanley Cup Champion Blackhawks in seven games in 2016. Furthermore, former Hawk Troy Brouwer scored the series-winning goal in Game 7.