SeanMoneyHands
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Dougie Hamilton? It’s not 2015 anymore
Picked Weegar but never got to see much of Hamilton since he left the Bruins to be honestIf we're factoring in contracts I'd rather have Weegar at this point, but Hamilton is the better player overall provided that he is not cooked from the recent injuries. It's early in the season and he missed a lot of games so I think it's fair to give him some time.
Lots of people will tell you he’s not good defensively, but I think he gets an unfair reputation.Picked Weegar but never got to see much of Hamilton since he left the Bruins to be honest
What kind of defender is Hamilton ? Game strengths and stuff
Thank you
Is weegar improving or did he just shoot double his career % last year?Weegar is inexplicably still improving and growing exponentially. Hamilton on the other hand has always historically been better than Weegar and his career stats show it.
But depending on his current injury/contract, Weegar could rocket past Hamilton very quickly and not look back.
The question is too vague to answer. It's either or depending on the scenario.
Is weegar improving or did he just shoot double his career % last year?
His individual chance generation was 10 expected goals, suggesting it didn't come from generating "better" chances.Improving. His playstyle is evolving and rounding out from his time in Florida in a good way. Last year certainly may not be the norm, but there's attributes to his game that seem like he could stay relatively closer to last year's career year totals vs going back to his previous bests.
Doubling his shooting% is a concern, sure. But when he scored 39% of his career goals (20/51) last year due to changes in the way he engages and attacks, I think it's OK to believe him to be a regular 10-15 goal dman vs going back to 4-8 goals max a season. Prior to that, he never got more than 8 goals a season.
You could historically expect around 35-45 points from him with a flawed game. 50 points from last year is sorta the outlier so far. But based on his recent seasons and evolution in play, I think he could easily continue in the 40-50 range going forward with much more varied mixtures of goals and assists from year to year.
If I'm wrong, then he's just an interesting trivia answer to players who randomly peaked at weird times. But the way he plays actually seems sustainable.
Weegar's partners the last 3 years have been Andersson Tanev and Ekblad lmao at trying to play the pairing card.Weegar, especially considering their contracts.
Hamilton has been blessed partner wise in his career with Chara, Giordano, and Slavin. I didn't really dislike him the same way a lot of Bruins and Flames fans did but he is soft in front of his net and his fancies always look good mostly just because he shoots a ton. Bad shot, good shot, shot with no chance at all, Dougie will fire one in there every chance he gets. He's a good complimentary dman but I would not trust him to run his own pair and basically every NHL coach he's had has recognized the same.
His individual chance generation was 10 expected goals, suggesting it didn't come from generating "better" chances.
Last year was also the first year of his career that Weegar had a sub 50% xGoals share, as well as by far the worst year of his career in terms of allowing chances against.
Weegar played the majority of his minutes with Rasmus Andersson tho.It was perhaps also the worst year for uncertainty for a d corps in recent memory. The Flames shipped out half of their top dmen (Tanev, Hanifin, Zadorov). Huska is still figuring things out at the NHL level... there's some reasons for that.
Weegar has looked like he's blooming in this tumultuous scenario. I guess he's the type of person who flourishes in those scenarios vs easy ones. There were often situations where quite a few of us were noticing slightly new things and hoping he'd do it more (and he did).
All I'm saying is that I'm relying on the eye test, which I get doesn't feel reliable. But I'm also saying there's been so many differences that make it seem like these are sustainable changes and not just a lucky season.
Weegar played the majority of his minutes with Rasmus Andersson tho.
I find the eye test from fans gets fooled a LOT when it comes to guys with wild shooting %s (both low and high).