Dougie Hamilton, the uppity loner restricted free agent defenseman who clearly didn’t fit with the Boston Bruins for reasons that obviously had nothing to do with the Bruins, was signed by the Calgary Flames Tuesday to a reported six-year contract for $34.5 million.
I guess the Flames ignored the predictable Boston character assassinations of Hamilton after he was traded by Bruins and signed him anyway. This is probably good for Calgary, who now has a 6-foot-5, 22-year-old asset on its blueline for the next several seasons.
Said Calgary GM Brad Treliving on Hamilton via the Calgary Sun:
“I’m not going to comment on any anonymous people out there, but we’ve done our homework — thorough homework — both on the player and the person, and we are over-the-moon excited about the player and the person that we’re getting,” Treliving said.