I actually think Hamonic is grossly underrated around these parts because it’s just what people have seen this year. When Hamonic was on the Islanders he was a legit budding star, a kinda 1-2 Dman on a cap friendly deal. You bet your ass if you’re trading picks for the guy you were going to have to pony up.
You have to think of these trades as what the player was at the time. Not many people thought it was a crazy overpayment. In retrospect Treliving was thinking this team is better than what it was. New York did too I bet. So Treliving offers what, a potential later round first pick, like pick +20 and yeah, he’s gonna need to add more than one more pick at +40th overall. Was it an overpayment? I suppose a little yeah, but not quite the highway banditry this site is making it out to be based on the value of the assets at that time in my opinion. Treliving also was likely thinking that this season was his chance to really make this a cup contender by adding a more defensive defenceman to a fairly offensive style D corps. Plus with Gulutzans horrendous system, if you could even call it a system, he probably thought Hamonic would be a very helpful young player, it also provides more legit NHL defensive depth rather than hoping Anderson or Valimaki would be ready when they most likely wouldn’t be.
To be honest the Hamonic trade strikes me as one of the most hindsight is 20/20 perspectives I’ve read of fan opinions on this site in a long time.
Lastly, and this is really really important, and goes especially for Brodie too... but I think you REALLY, need to fix the coaching staff and see what they can do with some of these players. We have seen these players perform at a very high level. Look at the expectations going into this season based on this roster. You don’t start trading players until you can clearly fix blame on them for losing. At this point you can’t, but you can see the coaching has so many flaws it’s mindboggling.
What could a fresh coaching staff and system do with Hamonic? Brodie? Giordano? Like these are all really good, or at one point were really good players. Just because Gulutzan couldn’t figure out he needed to use a system to players strengths doesn’t mean you jettison these players and beat them up for not performing for a failure of a coach.
Just admit what the problem is, swallow your pride, try a new coach and don’t do anything stupid.
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