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Originally Posted by Poe969
Everything Calgary Flames is crap so far this year. People complaining about Hamilton need to give their head a shake. The kid is good, not great right now but still good. Thing is, he'll get a lot better. The team is not doing poorly because of him, as the team improves he will improve a lot too.
I'm still amazed that we got him and I'm willing to bet a lot of teams would still want him right now.
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He is the 5th best defenseman on the 3rd worst team in the NHL.
Is he good enough to part of the solution?
He is getting paid the 15th most in the NHL as a d-man. He is getting paid 1.1 M more per season than Brodie. We have gone almost 25% of a season and he has had significantly more bad plays than great plays. His highlight reel as a Flame is very short.
The part that is bewildering is that Hartley has significantly more confidence playing Wideman against the better players from the other teams.
He starts Hamilton with Russell and is waiting for Hamilton to step up but it always ends up with Hamilton earning the 5th most minutes.