A teammate goes to bat for Hamilton.
http://www.csnne.com/boston-bruins/ex-b ... ns-defenseQuote:
A Bruins player reached out to CSNNE.com early Tuesday after reading an anonymous quote over the weekend that Hamilton “was not well-liked” in the B’s dressing room.
“Dougie is one of the nicest guys I’ve played with!” the player said in a text message to CSNNE.com. “So if anyone says he wasn’t well-liked or anything [like that], it’s not true. I just wanted to set the record straight.”
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In the days that followed, the Boston Herald quoted an anonymous NHL assistant GM as saying: “[The trade] was surprising. It’s obvious there’s something going on that we don’t know about. From what I’ve heard behind the scenes, his teammates don’t like him. I heard he’s a loner and sort of an uppity kid, and that his teammates don’t like him and it was unanimous.”
A little context from somebody who's spent plenty of time around Hamilton in the B’s dressing room, and has had differences of opinion with him over the last three years: He wasn’t a charismatic, popular guy like Shawn Thornton or Johnny Boychuk, but he wasn’t disliked by his teammates, either. He wasn’t a bad apple or a divisive influence; he was more of a cerebral, 21-year-old kid finding his niche among an established, veteran group of successful players.
Hamilton probably paid a little too much attention to what was written and said about him, was a little more sensitive than your typical hockey player, and sometimes let the criticism affect him on the ice. None of that is much different from any number of youngsters who, with more and more frequency, populate NHL rosters.
Well, after the next trade by the Bruins we will know who stuck up for him.