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Originally Posted by GioforPM

Hamilton takes less penalties than Backlund, in more minutes. He takes fewer than Hamonic, who I like a lot. He took Pretty much exactly the same as Gio.

I just don't see all the "dumb" penalties. Some are, some are normal "got beat and hooked the guy" that happen to all defencemen, and some weren't even penalties, but were actually really good defensive plays (go to the GTs for those).

He's an offensive specialist, but not a defensive liability IMO, not like Brodie or Stone, who I think is overrated in his own end as far as puck battles, clearing the net front and making good positional decisions.

I have also repeatedly said that IMO he gets a bad rap on effort, just because he doesn't take as many strides and the ones he takes are so smooth.

Very accurate and objective analysis.