This might be driven by the disagreement that BT had with Hartley over Hamilton.
Despite Hamilton's career year in scoring he was not the catalyst the Flames needed to step up to being a solid playoff team.
Hamilton was signed as a top 2 d-man and was supposed to be one of BT's "Best Move of his career"
Hartley started Hamilton as top 2 but then moved him down to #5 for most of the year.
It seemed to me that the Hamilton supporters were pushing for more Ice time and a bigger role for Hamilton all year.
After the trade deadline with Russell and Wideman out Hamilton still did not get much of a bigger role.
Only at the very end did Hamilton get paired with Brodie and Brodie's immaculate +/- took a hit (-9) the last 17 games.
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