Its also not about your stats in college several years ago. This is a joke! Do you even understand that your points have no bearing on the merits of these players now?
Oh - Eaton, Timmonen, Zidlicky, and Hamhuis would have all likely played for the Habs on defense last year. Hamhuis was not a minus 30.....he was actually a - 12, which taken into context, is quite good.
Dan Hamhuis is already our no. 3 defensemen, and in terms of sheer minutes, almost a no. 2. Are you saying he has already maxed out his potential as a rookie? Furthermore, if were playing the potential game, why is Mike Komisarek who has played downright awful for large stretches in his brief NHL career, and nominally used as a 5-6 dman so much better offensively and defensively than Hamhuis who did much much more at a higher level of competition Defensively AND offensively...not to mention he is younger? When I take that information in, it seems to me that at the least Hamhuis has the same potential as Mike ( save for sheer mass), if not more potential.