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Originally Posted by Crumpy-Gunt
I cant imagine hes the value of a 1st and 2 2nds better though?
I get that hamonic is better and more valuable than stone. But how much better. If we dont also sign stone...it looks pretty bad imo. Not even stanley cup contenders give up 3 top 60 picks to go from decent 4th d man to good 4th dman.
Seems like a big trade to make for what could be argued is replacing one 4th dman for another younger cheaper tougher one.
That cant be what they did. Im sure they will find a way to keep stone as well and have that solid playoff depth at d.
Considering the wideman contract, engelland move and also 1 or 2 other contracts potentially coming off the books maybe we can keep stone and sign a rw as well.
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If you're just picturing him as a straight 4th defenseman that's where your valuation problem is.
He also gives us something that we don't have nor have in the system which is a high level defense first defenseman with a physical edge.
Also unlike Stone, the Flames would be comfortable if Gio or Brody went down and he had to move up and eat minutes.
I think that we way over value draft picks at time and that they're all guaranteed to be these impact guys.
This is a big ad that fills a major need, and Stone could play on the third pair and be capable of moving up to the second pair if needed, but Stone on the first pair would be a disaster.
Also if he has a good year, the equivalency is Larsson in Edmonton. They play similar games though Hamonic is a bit more physical. Neither have much of a A level offensive game, but they're both very good in their own end, skate well and make good first passes. This trade really helps our penalty kill as well.
Larsson will probably end up surpassing Hamonic just due to age. But at the moment Larsson is getting a 4.1 cap hit and was traded for Hall. The Flames equivalent would be Johnny.