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Originally Posted by burnitdown
Yes, true - the trade was great. However, now that we're paying him $5.75M per year, we shouldn't be comparing him to players similar in age. Brodie and Giordano were probably making $600k per year so we weren't expecting anything from them, nor was there much of an opportunity cost waiting while they develop as they didn't eat up any of the cap. It was fantastic they turned out way better than expected as we gained some value years from their contracts. At $5.75M, Hamilton needs to produce at the level of a top 3 defenceman right now...regardless of his age or the potential he shows. We need to hope he's able to improve much further as the contract goes on if we want his contract to turn into a value contract.
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Erik Karlsson 2015-2016 OTT D 82 16 66 82
Brent Burns 2015-2016 SJS D 82 27 48 75
Kris Letang 2015-2016 PIT D 71 16 51 67
Roman Josi 2015-2016 NSH D 81 14 47 61
John Klingberg 2015-2016 DAL D 76 10 48 58
Mark Giordano 2015-2016 CGY D 82 21 35 56
Oliver Ekman-Larsson 2015-2016 ARI D 75 21 34 55
Dustin Byfuglien 2015-2016 WPG D 81 19 34 53
Drew Doughty 2015-2016 LAK D 82 14 37 51
Ryan Suter 2015-2016 MIN D 82 8 43 51
Shea Weber 2015-2016 NSH D 78 20 31 51
P.K. Subban 2015-2016 MTL D 68 6 45 51
Tyson Barrie 2015-2016 COL D 78 13 36 49
Brent Seabrook 2015-2016 CHI D 81 14 35 49
Keith Yandle 2015-2016 NYR D 82 5 42 47
Victor Hedman 2015-2016 TBL D 78 10 37 47
Shayne Gostisbehere 2015-2016 PHI D 64 17 29 46
TJ Brodie 2015-2016 CGY D 70 6 39 45
Torey Krug 2015-2016 BOS D 81 4 40 44
Kevin Shattenkirk 2015-2016 STL D 72 14 30 44
Andrei Markov 2015-2016 MTL D 82 5 39 44
Dougie Hamilton 2015-2016 CGY D 82 12 31 43
Duncan Keith 2015-2016 CHI D 67 9 34 43
Dougie Hamilton was 22nd in points at 22 last year.
>P.K. Subban
P.K. Subban
DEFENSEMAN $9,000,000
2 >Shea Weber
Shea Weber
DEFENSEMAN $7,857,143
3 >Ryan Suter
Ryan Suter
DEFENSEMAN $7,538,462
4 >Kris Letang
Kris Letang
DEFENSEMAN $7,250,000
5 >Brian Campbell
Brian Campbell
DEFENSEMAN $7,142,875
6 >Drew Doughty
Drew Doughty
DEFENSEMAN $7,000,000
7 >Zdeno Chara
Zdeno Chara
DEFENSEMAN $6,916,667
8 >Alex Pietrangelo
Alex Pietrangelo
DEFENSEMAN $6,500,000
>Erik Karlsson
Erik Karlsson
DEFENSEMAN $6,500,000
10 >Mike Green
Mike Green
DEFENSEMAN $6,000,000
>Johnny Boychuk
Johnny Boychuk
DEFENSEMAN $6,000,000
12 >Brent Seabrook
Brent Seabrook
DEFENSEMAN $5,800,000
13 >Brent Burns
Brent Burns
DEFENSEMAN $5,760,000
14 >Andrei Markov
Andrei Markov
DEFENSEMAN $5,750,000
>Tobias Enstrom
Tobias Enstrom
DEFENSEMAN $5,750,000
>Matt Niskanen
Matt Niskanen
DEFENSEMAN $5,750,000
>Dougie Hamilton
Dougie Hamilton
DEFENSEMAN $5,750,000
Dougie Hamilton is 17th in the league in salary. He will be on that same salary until he is 26. Most of the guys above him in points are older to much older (with some notable exceptions).
Hamilton is a bargain.