Dougie Hamilton projections

[STLblues]

What are some of your thoughts on Hamilton? Particularly versus other young stud d-men? I'm talking points and SOG only. Exclude everything else.

If you want go ahead and rank these five.....

Hamilton
S Jones
Trouba
M Reilly
C Fowler

[ztking]

For the coming season or next? For next season I'm going to say as follows:

Trouba
Fowler
Reilly
Hamilton
Jones

I think Trouba captains the PP which is obviously huge for D, and has a breakout year. Fowler remains on PP1 and is consistent but not as good as Trouba. Rielly has a great season but still had a little way to go and is still further down on team depth chart than two above. Hamilton stays 2nd PP and I have more faith in Krug than Hamilton and I think the Bruins feel the same way. And Jones will be great but it's only his second year and he'll be behind Weber and Josi in regards to PP and ice time. Just my thoughts.

[petegreg21]

Next season points:

Fowler - 40
Rielly - 35
Trouba - 35
Jones - 33
Hamilton - 32

Next season SOG:

Hamilton - 145
Trouba - 145
Reilly - 135
Jones - 125
Fowler - 125

I'd flip a coin between Rielly and Trouba for next season if you want a good balance of both points and SOG. A lot will depend on how Byfuglien (in terms of PP) and Phaneuf (PP and ES) are deployed.

Long term I'd want Rielly.

[CHunter]

Next season points:

Fowler - 40
Rielly - 35
Trouba - 35
Jones - 33
Hamilton - 32

Next season SOG:

Hamilton - 145
Trouba - 145
Reilly - 135
Jones - 125
Fowler - 125

I'd flip a coin between Rielly and Trouba for next season if you want a good balance of both points and SOG. A lot will depend on how Byfuglien (in terms of PP) and Phaneuf (PP and ES) are deployed.

Long term I'd want Rielly.

Seems a pretty good call to me...+1

[Fast Tony DeNiro]

Ok, so there's some short-term projections. Here's my long-term....

Jones
Rielly
Hamilton
Trouba
Fowler

In terms of strictly points and SOG. Jones is going to be a beast, so so so skilled. Rielly and Hamilton are close, but I get the feeling Rielly will have a bit more free reign to create throughout his career, while Dougie will be deployed a bit more in SH situations. Trouba and Fowler are close as well, but Trouba will always be heavier on SOG since Fowler is not much of a slinger. Fowler would need to outscore him by 5+ points consistently to make up that difference, and while that's possible, I don't know that it's "likely". Don't sleep on Fowler though, some sheen has come off of him but he's still a very good young defenseman.

All of these players are extremely close. I have Jones at the top, but it's not like he's leagues ahead of the others. Really, any of them could end up being the best of this group in any given year.