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Originally Posted by Jimdon
So we ignore the draft +3 season where Hamilton clearly became the better offensive player while posting superior possession stats at the same time as facing harder minutes?
There's plenty of hope that hanifin can continue to develop into a top pairing guy, but let's not pretend that he's Hamilton's equal three years into his career.
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The point is he’s followed a very similar developmental curve to Hamilton at the same ages to this point and you can’t xompaer draft + 3 seasons because Hanifin hasn’t played his yet.
He’s not 2017/2018 Hamilton yet but at the same age they were pretty close - causing hope that maybe he could develop to be equal to Hamilton or maybe even better.
I kinda wonder if Flames brass thinks Hamilton has kinda stalled in development the last 3 seasons and think that Hanifin has more room to grow now - Hamilton has been very good as part of an elite pairing with Gio but hasn’t really closed weaknesses in his game that were there in his first season in Calgary to his third.
All that being said including Fox and Ferland is still too much IMO - either Carolina needed to add another piece (2nd rounder say) or it should have been a lesser prospect than Fox.