Don't want Hamilton back. He's on his 3rd team by the age of 25, that's all you need to know

he couldn't fit into the system during his time in Boston. Too many strong guys and too many players who take shots. Hes back here now with an offensively struggling team. I think he will fit well this time. I know hes been in 3 teams but a reason could be he was unable to coop with the team's system.

Hamilton burned enough bridges when he left a few years ago, Boston isn't touch him. I like how you try to make it seem like the fact that he's been with 3 teams by the age of 25 is not his fault, but the teams system.

B’s don’t want him back. Canes decline anyway.

This one doesn't really make any sense. The injuries kinda show they have great depth back there and don't need to add. Yes the offense from the blue line hasn't been as potent but krug is just getting his stride and chara and macavoy hurt don't help. The big issue is depth scoring, heinen, donato, bjork, backes just haven't chipped in at all.

I agree, but when Chara is retired, its a different story. We could use another #1 Dman. Ik we are still doing decent, but we are still suffering. Hamilton is offensive and thats why I thought he would help us get scoring going

I understand your point but the thing is, hes found his play in the canes, which is to take a lot of shots... These could turn into offensive tools that help our depth score. IDK, but there are trades that are trades. Hamilton isn't as elite as many other Dman but he could turn into something if he finds himself.

What defense problem?

The guy is on pace for over 300 shots this season. He currently ranks 12th among ALL NHL players in shots, yet he ranks T-263th in goals and T-275th in points. Lets also not forget that he's getting roughly 60% of his zone starts in the offensive zone. How does it makes sense that a guy who shots along but has little production is going to help this defense? How about the B's defense just get healthy? I mean McAvoy had 6pt in 7 games before getting hurt. Krug has 12 points in 15 games since starting his year. Gryz in a bit of a 10 game funk, but prior to that he had 8pts in 14 games. Once guys like McAvoy/Carlo/Chara return, it slots everyone back where they should be playing.

If if Chara retires after this season....

Vaak - McAvoy
Krug - Carlo
Grzy - Moore

^not a bad top 6 and I'm not even factoring in the following who could be here if Chara left after this year:

Lauzon
Zboril
Miller
Clifton
Andersson
Sherman

Well ideally it's macavoy being the stud back there. I was hoping carlo might morph into a stud defensive player and they'd have a pair at the top.

thats two righties...

true, but we only have one top 2 Dman. We will be suffering from the top paring. IDK but who knows what Vaak can do this year. If he does well, we don't need another player.

I was thinking that if Chara retires, we have one top 2Dman and Hamilton will be a top 2 with McAvoy. But don't care about this. This wasn't anywhere good

McAvoy can play top pairing. Carlo can play top pairing, hell I think this year we've seen krug, gryz, moore all lead boston dmen in TOI. Not to mention, how many teams have two legit #1's on the team?

Yeah true. Carlo tho... hes a rightie with a rightie, not ideal... If we kinda wanna contend next year, I think Hamilton is the safe game, but who knows.

You're screwing with me right? Carlo doesn't work on the 1st pairing because he's a righty like McAvoy, but Hamilton is the safe game for 1st pairing if we want to contend?

not really. I didn't say that Carlo doesn't work. I say that it could be concerning and the two are both young. IDK if they are ready to be on the same pairing and the chemistry. I don't know but they could work. Hamilton is safe to say that we have a top pairing, otherwise we don't know. For a contention, you wanna have a good top pairing and a good depth. We already have a good top line but we are lacking depth from our fowards. Hamilton will give us a top pairing.

You just said Carlo isn't ideal because hes a righty, but your proposal is to acquire Hamilton who is a righty. Things like this is why people don't take you seriously

the thing is, Hamilton is naturally on the left. Carlo has played his whole career on the right

How is he naturally on the left when he's right handed? He's played the right side since coming into the NHL 6-7 years ago. I remember when he was drafted, B's fan rejoiced because we felt like we had our future #1RHD. When he went to CGY he was the #1RHD with Gio and now in CAR he is the #1RHD with Slavin on his left.

Here is what we know: BOS Edition
- Once BOS said no to acquire his brother, Hamilton refused stay with Boston.
- Hamilton was offered nearly an identical deal to what he got in CGY and refused to sign it again because of his brother
- Didn't mess well with the rest of the locker room. Came off to some as having "his nose up in the air"

Here is what we know: CGY Edition
- 3 months after acquire Dougie, they acquired his brother Freddie
- Hamilton was labeled by CGY management as someone who was content with losing
- Rumors are that Hamilton didn't like to do stuff with the team, but rather be by himself (for example at a museum)
- After Freddie was traded in January, rumors were he (Dougie) told GMBT he wasn't happy.
- Hamilton was asked to move from 1st pairing to 2nd pairing (this year) in hopes of getting Brodie going and Hamilton didn't like the idea.

Listen off the ice the kid is probably one of the nicest people there is. This is a business though and there are a lot of red flags between the two different organizations he's played for. Don't you think its odd that a kid with Hamilton's age, sill level and position has been traded twice in 3-4 years? Oh BTW, Hamilton is on pace for 28 points and currently has the worst P/GP of his career.