What is the rational reason Travis Hamonic plays?

[Adrianopolous]

He brings physicality

 

[Mr Hat]

We have useful veteran presence so don’t need a token role player. Giroux and Jensen. We don’t need one on the ice at all times.

If it wasn’t for NMC is a good depth dman called upon to play when needed. Not someone who takes minutes away from Mantipalo. He must be well liked in the room but hard to see that as tangible.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

I don't have OCD, but once in a blue moon I'll walk past an object and have an intrusive thought to myself like "if I don't move that book my house is going to burn down". I know my house isn't actually going to burn down, but the way the thought presents itself to me is intrusive and has an odd sense of authority. I usually don't move the book, I am not crazy. If the thought worried me enough to move the book, I would then be crazy,

I imagine, Travis Green might have a similar problem with playing Hamonic, but he doesn't have the willpower I do not to move the book. If you haven't followed along, Travis Hamonic is the book.

Same reason Gaudette hasn't left the lineup despite only having 5 points in his last 31 games (bringing nothing to the table besides scoring) and Highmore keeps getting ice time despite accomplishing jack squat every time he's on the ice.

Green coached Hamonic in Vancouver and clearly is very fond of his former Canucks. Clear favoritism.

It is the Didomenico syndrome.

 

[sena]

They want the young guys to see a guy that stays in the NHL with all dog and all effort. The spots and contracts came easy for everyone else. {not easy easy they worked an entire childhood for it) but the locker needs the beat up bruised giving everything he has left guy.

 

[Tuna99]

In such a great season and full team turn around when we will start a long run of playoff hockey - the know it all fans who day afyer day dump On Travis Hamonic are idiots.

He came in here from Vancouver with a smile on his face and has been a solid dude ever since.

This week all we hear about is how great the Sens locker room is and the veteran presence and we have this god damn beauty of a man doing everybting you want from a veteran team Dman and Sens fans want to put a guy making a milllion bucks through the ringer every game.

I love Travis Hamonic, his moustache and everybting he’s done for this franchise. The kind of man I’d want my son to be.

 

[Agent Zuuuub]

In such a great season and full team turn around when we will start a long run of playoff hockey - the know it all fans who day afyer day dump On Travis Hamonic are idiots.

He came in here from Vancouver with a smile on his face and has been a solid dude ever since.

This week all we hear about is how great the Sens locker room is and the veteran presence and we have this god damn beauty of a man doing everybting you want from a veteran team Dman and Sens fans want to put a guy making a milllion bucks through the ringer every game.

I love Travis Hamonic, his moustache and everybting he’s done for this franchise. The kind of man I’d want my son to be.

Your son isn't an NHL caliber player anymore. I feel like he would struggle in the AHL too.

Or maybe the fact Travis didn't play and we gave up 49 shots proves the exact opposite of what you guys think.

Poor hockey analysts think that whoever has the toughest assignments is to blame.

Poor analysts cherry pick the worst players to blame for everything. But somebody has to be your worst defenseman. And they are just trying to do there job like everyone else.

If we actually had better players we'd play them.

You guys used to pick on Ceci. He went to the cup finals last year. Still coveted.

Of course travis is not that good.

But he's part of this squad. He's vocal. He's a warrior. And he actually seems like a cool dude. I wonder how many of the nerds that post here he could fight at the same team. Easily 3 of you. Probably 4 or 5 though.

The team didn't play well, they were bent, but they didn't break.

If Hamonic was in that game the floodgates would have opened for Detroit.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

I actually preferred him to JBD and think rose colored glasses were on when he was pointed to as a better option, at least in any real tangible way, but with the emergence of Matinpalo, he should be in the press box down the stretch here imo.

 

[Tuna99]

I actually preferred him to JBD and think rose colored glasses were on when he was pointed to as a better option, at least in any real tangible way, but with the emergence of Matinpalo, he should be in the press box down the stretch here imo.

Matinpalo was good for the first 5 games but he struggled before they took him out of the lineup - Hamonic can at least get shots on net