Your favourite memory of Roman Hamrlik

[WhiskeySeven*]

How was that his fault?

Not his fault but he surely wasn't worth 5.5m at any point in his Habs career. Topping out at a measly 34 points with major first minute time on a league leading PP.

That's what really bothered me about Hamrlik to be honest, it wasn't that he was a bad d-man, he wasn't, it was that he wasn't good enough. Not enough offense, not enough physicality, not enough shooting, not enough foot speed.

I'm okay with Gorges at 3.9 in modern money, he's overpaid but nonetheless it's fine, but Hamrlik at 5.5 in 2008 money is far too much for what he brought to the table. What's the difference between Gorges and Hamrlik? Gorges is faster, blocks more shots, he's more vocal, and he's not affiliated with career criminals sarcasm, Hamrlik has better positioning and is sturdier.

I can respect that he's a good dman, and he was, but he was beyond slow toward the end and got increasingly lazy (those delay of game penalties...) and brought too little to the table offensively to be a top2 d-man.

 

[Beatnik]

In a early 90's hockey year book, his profile stated: Le lightning aurons bougrement besoin d'un Roman Hamrlik moins rebarbatif.

Afterward I started using bougrement and rebarbatif every time I could!

 

[Victoire HuGo]

Not his fault but he surely wasn't worth 5.5m at any point in his Habs career. Topping out at a measly 34 points with major first minute time on a league leading PP.

That's what really bothered me about Hamrlik to be honest, it wasn't that he was a bad d-man, he wasn't, it was that he wasn't good enough. Not enough offense, not enough physicality, not enough shooting, not enough foot speed.

I'm okay with Gorges at 3.9 in modern money, he's overpaid but nonetheless it's fine, but Hamrlik at 5.5 in 2008 money is far too much for what he brought to the table. What's the difference between Gorges and Hamrlik? Gorges is faster, blocks more shots, he's more vocal, and he's not affiliated with career criminals sarcasm, Hamrlik has better positioning and is sturdier.

I can respect that he's a good dman, and he was, but he was beyond slow toward the end and got increasingly lazy (those delay of game penalties...) and brought too little to the table offensively to be a top2 d-man.

I take Hammer at that salary ahead of Gorges any day. Hamrlik brought better défensive IQ, almost a mistake free game on a nightly basis, good breakout pass, 30 pts a year, just as fast despite being bigger and much much much better positioning. The only thing Gorges has on Hammer is leadership and heart/courage.

 

[Forsead]

Not his fault but he surely wasn't worth 5.5m at any point in his Habs career. Topping out at a measly 34 points with major first minute time on a league leading PP.

That's what really bothered me about Hamrlik to be honest, it wasn't that he was a bad d-man, he wasn't, it was that he wasn't good enough. Not enough offense, not enough physicality, not enough shooting, not enough foot speed.

I'm okay with Gorges at 3.9 in modern money, he's overpaid but nonetheless it's fine, but Hamrlik at 5.5 in 2008 money is far too much for what he brought to the table. What's the difference between Gorges and Hamrlik? Gorges is faster, blocks more shots, he's more vocal, and he's not affiliated with career criminals sarcasm, Hamrlik has better positioning and is sturdier.

I can respect that he's a good dman, and he was, but he was beyond slow toward the end and got increasingly lazy (those delay of game penalties...) and brought too little to the table offensively to be a top2 d-man.

Harmlik was a top 3 guy with the Habs for all the time he was here and for quite some time was the number 1. He did an good job even when playing too much minutes against top opponents. His offensive production wasn't incredible, but he was mostly used on the second wave.


If you compare him to Gorges :

Hamrlik was better defensively and better offensively (brough better first pass and vision) and while he didn't blocked as many shots as Gorges in 2011-2012 (Only year Gorges was in top 5), he was a very effective shot blocker.

Harmlik was :

2007-2008 : #4 in total shots blocked in the NHL
2008-2009 : #5 in total shots blocked in the NHL
2009-2010 : #14 in total shots blocked in the NHL
2010-2011 : #4 in total shots blocked in the NHL

He always has been labelled as a good mentor for the youngs players. In his first two season he was way more physical than Gorges right now, but slowing down and playing too much minutes made him softer.

IMO Hamrlik gave us playing quality worth around 4,5 millions a year (considering the context) which made him overpaid by 1 million a year. Right now, I'm worried Gorges is also overpaid by 1 million.

If you compare percentage :

Harmlik overpayment : 1 million/5,5 millions = 18,2 %
Gorges overpayment : 1 million/3,9 millions = 25,6 %