The Boston Bruins shocked a lot of people when they dealt 22-year-old Dougie Hamilton to the Calgary Flames for three draft picks.

According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman the Boston Bruins offered the Hamilton a six-year, $33 million contract, but the 22-year-old countered with an offer that was around $2 million per year higher.

DJ Bean of WEEI.com doesn't think Hamilton's demands were all that realistic if that was what he was looking for.

"The press conference that [Don] Sweeney had afterwards was such an awkward affair because all the questions were actually trying to figure out what were you doing? What were you thinking? What led you to make this decision?" said Bean on Sports Sunday. "Nobody still has any answers. We're hearing about the contract demands, he was asking for too much. Well, he shouldn't have been so good at hockey. Because he was asking for the going rate, the Bruins didn't even approach that with him."

If the Bruins really wanted to trade Hamilton, Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe believes Don Sweeney and company could've handled the situation differently.

"The best play wasn't the offer sheet. The best play was to pay him what he wanted because you can be over the cap in the summer," said Dupont. "They could've paid him, because he's so young you can't give him a no-trade - that's by the CBA. So they would've had an asset tied up at six and a half, seven million dollars, [over] six years… Over the course of the summer they could've got a lot more for an asset who is 22 years old and tied up for six years."