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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
He's an academic guy that may not be into hanging out at bars and chasing girls like other young guys. If it's true that he was going to museums when the other players were getting together at restaurants/pubs I don't know if that's something that I would hold against him as a bad character. Just different and I thought we were supposed to be accepting of people like that in this day and age.
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It's obviously more than that. Bobby Holik was famously high-brow, always readings books when the team travelled and spending much of his leisure time at art galleries museums. He also wore a letter for a couple teams. The NHL isn't such a den of troglodytes that a team is going to run a player out of town just because he's bookish.
Flames management made several comments over the last year or two that they had problems with players who seemed okay with losing, who couldn't ratchet up the intensity. Pretty clear that one of those players was Hamilton.