Rumor: "Lots of guys available (via trade)" per GR

[Anakinsky]

I like the idea of Hamilton. Adds size and skill to D.

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[Anakinsky]

If we get ground stomped tonight what are the chances Head coach goes..

Sidenote: who is our defense coach ? and why has his name not been mentioned as the #1 guy to get fired ????

 

[Dread Clawz]

Couny me in on hamilton. Maybe with that contract they would be forced to jettison matheson as well. That's like a double trade.

 

[Gentle Man]

Dougielarge trading for DougieHam.

Makes too much sense.

 

[FrolikFan67]

Hamilton would be nice. But remember they said they wanted a partner for matheson, not to trade him (unfortunately)

 

[Asheville]

Hamilton is a f***ing dork whose teams get better after he leaves.

 

[Chaos2k7]

Interesting. I do like the idea of adding a big guy since we got rid of Bugj.

Red Flags with now a third organization wanting to move on from him. Too much smoke.

 

[Tranq]

I offered Hf carolina hurricanes Hoffman for either Hamilton or Pesce

 

[RogerRoger]

Fair. I just hear a lot of talk about picking up more offensive like players. All great, but do we not need a good Defensive player with size. We have some talented offensive guys that can score, does us no good if we cant get them the puck... and we do not really fore check hard, I am imagining because we need our forwards to help on D. Clearly not a ton of confidence that majority of our d guys can get the job done.

I could be way off just curious on everyone else's thoughts. Im not sold on picking up Bob at all. Rather spend that cash on two great Defensive guys and stick with Reimer call me crazy.

How could Hamilton score so much and get so many points if he can't get the puck because he's an offensive minded dman paired with other offensive minded dmen?

We are not built to forecheck and we try to do controlled zone entry, which yields better overall results in term of shot on goal and scoring chances compared dump and chase with heavy forecheck. Also, with the number of minutes our top 2 lines are playing, heavy forechecking would drain them even more.

Hamilton is having an off year, but even an off year for him is better than an average year from Trouba or any UFA. (I've heard some mentions of Stralman and he's having a terrible year defensively, similar to Petrovic in many aspects)

 

[Anakinsky]

How could Hamilton score so much and get so many points if he can't get the puck because he's an offensive minded dman paired with other offensive minded dmen?

We are not built to forecheck and we try to do controlled zone entry, which yields better overall results in term of shot on goal and scoring chances compared dump and chase with heavy forecheck. Also, with the number of minutes our top 2 lines are playing, heavy forechecking would drain them even more.

Hamilton is having an off year, but even an off year for him is better than an average year from Trouba or any UFA. (I've heard some mentions of Stralman and he's having a terrible year defensively, similar to Petrovic in many aspects)

@klabob
Thank you for the explanation. Actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[SoupyFIN]

Since this rumour died down pretty quick and the thread continued as a generic trade talk thread, we might as well move on to an actual thread about it.

Speculation: - Panthers trade deadline rumours/general trade talk (Bobrovsky, Panarin, etc.)