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Originally Posted by Vinny01
He wasn’t though. He was coming off a disastrous year where he had a trade request in. He came to Calgary after they paid top pairing D acquisition price to get him. They didn’t even protect their pick!
Hamonic came in and billed as a top pairing D man making under $4M for 3 years but he actually was an overpaid bottom pairing Dman who was expected to be a 3-4. He ruined Brodie in his first year here and had half this board ready to be done with Hanifin after 2 years with him. Hanifin looks like a completely different player with Tanev/Andersson and Brodie looked back to his former self when he was out back with Gio.
Hamonic was an absolute disaster that likely will be looked back as Treliving’s worst move unless they can be up giving up an even better pick to the Habs for the Monahan trade.
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I'm certainly not tryin to suggest the Hamonic trade was a good one. Was just adding the contract stuff to the discussion about why there seemed to be at least two teams with similar offers at the time.
I think the view at the time was a cost controlled 2/3 defenseman, which had value.