[jonkaupp]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

He's outscoring Dougie this year. Haha.


I just listed nearly 20 very high picks and said that only one was better than Hamilton, it's not like I'm on hating on him here.. Seth Jones is younger and the far more important player on his fringe-playoff team. Take a look at Columbus. Seth Jones is second in scoring behind only Panarin's 47 points. Dougie Hamilton has the support of Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Ferland, and Backlund. He's playing 25 minutes a night on that team, the difference in time is that he actually does see significant SH TOI over Dougie. And despite Werenski's amazing rookie season offensively, no one has ever said the 20 year old was the anchor defensively on that top pairing, it's Seth Jones, whereas you'll find many many many Flame fans say that Giordano is the anchor for Dougie.

I'm not underrating Dougie, my whole point of the post was to say how he's more valuable than a top 5 pick. I love Dougie, he's probably the last person I would trade on the Flames. It's just Flames fans underrating a young elite player on a different, unexciting team.

Jones is putting up the same offensive numbers on a worse offensive team, hes relied on more, he's better defensively, and he's younger. Other than the Flaming C on Dougie's chest, how is he better?

I personally think it’s pretty close and I could see an argument either way. Hamilton should be getting SH time imo, and definitely should have been getting more PP time all year. I also hate it when people point to Gio as propping up Dougie, just seems misguided. They feed off each other really well imo. But ya, Jones is an awesome player. We’d be lucky to have either one (and we are!)