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Originally Posted by GioforPM
My argument is that Hamilton is not considered to be a “front runner” by the hockey experts who you are pretending to cite. You’d have thought you could come up with at least one article when asked BTW. “Front runner” versus “contender” isn’t semantics at all. It was your point to prove that Carolina was a clear winner of the trade.
My argument is that Calgary has two core players from the trade. Carolina has one, plus a couple draft picks that have not yet had any impact on the team. My argument is that 22 year old Hamilton has a lot of upside yet, and could well wind up better than the one dimensional Hamilton. My argument is that Lindholm is a top line C/RW, and would up part of one of the best lines in hockey last year. In many ways he enabled the success of that line. My argument is that the trade favours Calgary. The only way you can argue otherwise is to say Hamilton is an elite player, and I don’t think he is. I don’t think him having a bunch of points and on a list for Norris consideration at the 1/3 mark means he is one either.
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Ignoring first paragraph because major eye roll.
Totally fine with those arguments, perhaps you could have gone with that first rather than ‘all defencemen contend for the Norris’
The crux of it is if you like Hanifin and don’t think Hamilton is an elite no 1 D, then you probably love the trade. If you are worried about Hanifin being tapped out (because right now he isn’t very good) and believe Hamilton is an elite no 1 defence men then you probably don’t love the trade but take solace in the fact that you got Lindholm on a beauty contract