[Trade] Flames trade 15th OA, 45th OA, and 52nd OA for Dougie Hamilton

[Muta]

Oilers are sour and playoffs are sweet. Thank you Sweeney for this blue line treat!

[Royle9]

Something's not right here...

I cant even get this trade to go through on NHL 15
Unrealistic.

[cofias]

Almost had a heart attack coming in here. This trade is beastly though. Can't believe Treliving pulled this off without giving up a young core player. Would have liked to see us make those picks but Hamilton beats that out easily. He turned 22 a week ago. What a deal.

[ScorchyScorch]

Giordano - Brodie
Hamilton - Russell
Wideman - Engelland
Smid
Wotherspoon

Dare I say another year of seasoning for Dougie/TJ and that's a contender blue line. Solid, solid top 5. That's sick.

Edit: forgot Engelland...much depth.

[Roof-Daddy]

This is awesome. Our young core had so much potential already, and now we add a 22 year old RHD beast to the mix.

[Lanny_McDonald]

Wow. Just wow. If you had said we would walk away from this draft with a potential Dougie Hamilton quality defenseman I would have been happy. But to actually walk away from this draft with Dougie Hamilton? Whaaaaaa? Just for draft picks??? I'm shocked. I hope he fits in and becomes that number one defenseman the Flames need. Man, what an up and coming team!

[sureLoss]

Ken Campbell @THNKenCampbell
Hamilton trade a cautionary tale in bad salary cap management. My blog.

http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/ha...ap-management/

[Mongo]

What a great trade for the Flames. What is Boston doing to themselves.

They should have held off though...we won't get as many 'we have a trade to announce' calls tonight!

[JurassicTunga12]

Imagine us signing a guy like Sekera???

Giordano - Brodie
Sekera - Hamilton
Russell - Wideman

[saillias]

I would try:

Giordano-Hamilton
Brodie-Wideman
Russell-Engelland

That's a LH-RH shot on all three pairings.

[united]

Originally Posted by AC

Hamilton is an advanced stat darling too. Vastly improves almost everybody he's on the ice with.

Saw on Twitter he didn't improve ALMOST everybody he was on the ice with, he improved EVERYBODY he was on the ice with. Every single player.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Kevin Paul Dupont @GlobeKPD
One source has Hamilton's ask at $5.5 million per.

If the Oilers offer-sheet Hamilton for 4 first rounders you take it and run.

[AC]

Originally Posted by united

Saw on Twitter he didn't improve ALMOST everybody he was on the ice with, he improved EVERYBODY he was on the ice with. Every single player.

So basically if we play Backlund, Brodie, and Hamilton together at the same time we'll break the stats and be >100%.

[fanman]

Wow, holy sh**balls. What outstanding news to wake up to!
I never thought they would actually be able to pull off a trade for a player like Hamilton.
Well done Treliving!

[DuckmanX]

Apparently my friend took a screen capture of this (likely edited by a BOS fan), minutes before it was changed.

Under "Professional" , the last line ...

[AC]

Originally Posted by AC

Hamilton is an advanced stat darling too. Vastly improves almost everybody he's on the ice with.

To add to this, the graph indicates the Selke winner Bergeron and recent Norris winner Chara are both going to really miss Hamilton.

[Hatter]

Lol guys Dougie Hamilton is on our team now and we still have all our youngsters. Best draft day ever.

[jg13]

Around The League Report

Spoiler!

Vancouver

Canucks fan here. Calgary might be my new favourite team.

Hamilton traded for 15th overall and 2 2nds. Wow. Hilariously bad for Boston
Seriously. That is grounds for immediate firing. Incredibly bad. Sweeney must have lost every marble in his mind.
That's a franchise defenceman for the 15th and magic beans. Lunacy.

Absolutely atrocious for Boston. Good god.

Bruins got bent over so hard I doubt their back will ever be the same.

Chicago

One of the most lopsided trades in decades. What a fleece job. Well done Calgary.

Edmonton

What the hell. I hate Boston management so much right now.

Montreal

oh my god, Boston. What the actual ****?! That's AWFUL

Boston

This is a ****ing DISASTER

NYI

What a ****ing steal. Calgary is awesome.

NYR

this is honestly worse than sequin trade, Don Sweeney needs to be locked up in a mental institution like immieadetely. No sarcasm I think Sweeney has lost his mind.

What a deal for the Flames. Calgary on the path to becoming a legitimate contender. Battle of Alberta is going to be fantastic.

Washington

Calgary is gonna be scary in a couple of years
Monahan, Gio, Brodie, Hamilton, Bennett, Gaudreau

Toronto

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha
sweeney = nonis 2.0

This is the dumbest trade in a long time.

Tampa

Boston just got F-L-E-E-C-E-D.

This is worse than the Seguin trade. Seguin wasn't producing as well as expected and wasn't going to pass Krejci and Bergeron anytime soon so he had to be traded. In that trade they at least got legit NHL players and rookies back.

In this trade they traded a young #1 D who had NOBODY to compete with for that position for PICKS? And the picks aren't even good... what the hell, Boston..

[-TC-]

I left my meeting and was rolling home with the NHL Network on and they talked about the trade.... I just about crashed.

TOTALLY WORTH IT

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Locke

If the Oilers offer-sheet Hamilton for 4 first rounders you take it and run.

Yup and then when McDavid comes to RFA you hammer the crap out of the Oilers and destroy their salary structure.