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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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The team was poorly coached. Really would you expect a team that's going to jump through walls to win for an nice guy coach that was in over his head? To me it seems like a lot of fans including yourself wanted to pin the "okay with losing" tag on guys like Gaudreau, Hamilton, Monahan, etc because of an uninformed Francis article. The coach got fired and the new coach wanted to bring a few players from his old team that he thought could help the Flames and the truth is that guys like Brodie and Hamonic were not going to get that deal done. If for whatever reason the Hurricanes decide they want to keep those players I don't think Hamilton was burning a hole in Treliving's pocket that he had to move him. It's simply a matter of teams having to give up a lot to get a lot.