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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Well it’ll be interesting to see if Hamonic is better in his 2nd season on the Flames and in the west. Perhaps we’ll see him not paired with Brodie or perhaps Brodie ups his game. Peters has mentioned he thinks Hamonic will be better this upcoming season. He is in his prime, it’s dangerous to read declines in players careers they can often have resurgences. Hamonic is in his 20’s and we’ve seen guys have huge comeback years in their late 30’s. So I don’t buy this idea that he’s declining one bit.
As for Hamonic vs Stone we had neither when we acquired Hamonic. Some people regret that trade but if Treliving hasn’t acquired Hamonic and we hadn’t signed Stone defense would have been a big issue last year
I’d do the Hamonic trade again frankly. He fills a need and was acquired for market value. Yes Treliving probably should’ve signed Jagr two months earlier so that he would’ve been ready for camp or acquired secondary scoring another way. IMO the biggest problem with our secondary scoring issue was the way GG constructed his lines and I think Peters can coax more goals out of this lineup by merely tweaking the existing player usage. That said I fully expect Treliving to acquire one more top 6 forward this offseason to really help that depth.
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To add to this, Stone is a fantastic guy to call up and act as a #4 for short stints. However, I would not want him in my top 4 full time. The Flames absolutely needed another top 4 dman last year.