Soaring Highs And Unfulfilled Promise: Dougie Hamilton As A New Jersey Devil

Going back to the offseason, there has been varying degrees of smoke around the future of New Jersey Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton. Entering the fifth year of a seven-year, $63m contract he signed back in 2021, Hamilton’s play and physical health were starting to decline. So much so that apparently Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald saw fit to shop him over the summer. Nothing came of…