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“The players, and I guess the organization...everybody is within their rights with the way the CBA is. But to me as a coach, I find it very unfortunate that players that have played maybe three years in the league all of a sudden are looking to be up there [in salary] with the top eight players,” said Julien. “I preferred the other way where they worked their way up over the years and had service and everything else.

“But that’s not to say [Hamilton] wasn’t in his right. He was in his right, and he was entitled to do what he did. I’m not standing here blaming him at all. Would we have liked to have kept him? We would have liked to have kept Dougie Hamilton, he’s a good, promising player. But you move on, and you move on in these situations as well.”

Hamilton and his camp had a choice to take less and be part of the team salary structure if he wanted to remain a Bruins, and tacitly uphold the old-school salary system Julien was referring to. It might not be easy or even realistic in today’s NHL to expect players to worry about their money fitting in with team-building, but it also sounds like that is going to be the B’s approach under GM Don Sweeney and the new regime.