I did ya. Hamifin(heh) does have a potential to be a pairing that complements each other well I agree, but lots of us(myself included) thought the Brodie - Hamonic pair would work better than it did too. Hanifin I think is a bit more comparable to Brodie than he is to Hamilton at least at this stage of his career. Hamonic despite getting labelled as a stay at home shut down type is quite adept at skating it out and has a good first pass as well, so it could really make for an excellent all situations pairing if Peters has these guys playing very tight gaps and quick transitions.
What I'll be very curious to see is how confident Hanifin is along the offensive blue line, how he walks it, the quality of his pinch/not pinch decisions, whether he hangs on to the puck for an extra second and tries to make a play rather than just sending it back into the corners, and how often he looks to attack the net coming in from a point position. Those were some of the facets of Hamilton's game that I really thought he was among the best in the league at, as well as being our ONLY consistent threat to score from the perimeter. He really was great at holding that blue line down.
