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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
You mean like how Jankowski and Kulak didn't come and start playing more minutes than vets like Tanner Glass and Matt Bartkowski? Please. It's just a contrived position to have, and pulling the "shiny new toys" card is par for the course.
I don't "know" how anyone is going to perform when thrust into the show. I can make educated guesses based on skills, tools, observations, and results at lower levels. Which is a far more measured position than blindly declaring "How many prospects would you be confident in playing over Hamonic ? The answer is 0." as if Hamonic inspires confidence of his own, especially in a "top defender role" that you claim to "realize" he possesses "what it takes", which you still haven't described.
Based on all the evidence I've seen, it's pretty clear Travis Hamonic has been playing at the level of a bottom pair defenseman for the last two seasons, maybe more. Even the best year of his career is tied to ridiculously inflated on-ice save percentages by Jaroslav Halak, although his underlying numbers were better on a whole back then.
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And likewise how you haven't described how any one of our rookies could perform better then him .
Do you not remember how bad Dougie was when he first came over to our team? It took him a full season and then the next year he was playing at an elite level.
We are 25 some games into the season for hamilton- it's crazy to start to talking about what a waste of the draft picks were when we haven't even seen a full sample size of what he can do