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Originally Posted by Mister Yamoto
Fair enough. Great points. I'd take the the 25 year old bonecrusher over the 22 year old offensive specialist all day every day.
I would also say that Kopitar, Getzlaf, Kane, Thornton etc. would agree with you and prefer that the Flames stay soft. It's nice to play against players who are nice.
Hamonic is the closest U30 thing in the league there is to 2006 Robyn Regehr. He plays smart. He hits. He hits to hurt. He can play top 2 minutes. He can win games.
Giordano, Gaudreau, Monahan, Brodie, Hamilton is a small and soft core. Great players that nobody is afraid of.
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The problem with what your saying is Hamonic is not the player you are describing. He's not a bone crusher. He's not even a hitter. He has 148 hits for the season, which is only 2.1 per game. To put that into context, Ferland has 205 hits, or 3.0 per game. Roman Polak has 299, or 3.9 hits per game, which is almost twice as many per game. Rado Gudas has 292, or 4.1 per game. One of my favorite prospects on the blueline, Stephen Johns, has 52 in 12 games, or 4.3 per game. Seems if we want a bone crusher that should be our guy, not Hamonic.
My big problem with Hamonic is that prior to his announcement of wanting to be traded he wasn't on anyone's radar. He was a middling defenseman on a middling Islanders team, not worthy of much discussion. Since his announcement he's become the flavor of the year and the guy everyone wants. My opinion is that if he wasn't interesting enough to talk about before a public trade demand he probably isn't all that and a bag of chips. I still see Hamonic as a middling defenseman on a middling team and I wouldn't trade any of our top three for him. From what I have seen from Jokipakka so far I wouldn't trade him for Hamonic either, not on that friendly contract that we need so badly. There are other less expensive options out there to meet our needs on the blueline. We should pursue them.