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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
100% correct. I find there’s a lot of short sighted thinking in this thread. The content with Neal crowd is akin to a leaky basement. You don’t really care about it until it either floods the basement or crumbles the foundation.
You have to pay attention now because the problem will eventually rear its ugly haad. I remember seeing tons of “once he gets 1, the flood gates will open.” I knew that wasn’t going to be the case because he hasn’t shown any kind of dominant ability on a regular basis. He doesn’t drive play and create scoring chances on a regular basis.
At best, he’s good for the occasional goal going forward, but even then, he’ll always be dependent on someone getting him the puck in a good scoring position. That’s unfortunate, because there’s less than a handful of players on this team that actually have that ability and even worse, he hasn’t gelled with those said players.
I can only hope that Treliving isn’t just sitting on his hands hoping and praying that Neal will just flip miraculously flip a switch and tranform into a completely different player. Surely he can see the personnel problems with the PP2 unit and that the constant bottom 6 line juggling isn’t a good sign this deep into the season.
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Neal is a sunk cost. No one is content with him but some realize there isn't a whole lot that can be done. Whining daily isn't exactly a solution. Is anyone going to take him in trade? Seems highly unlikely. So basically the only option you have is to hope he gets going. I think you confuse being content with not needing to beat a dead horse. EVERYONE knows Neal is playing like crap. Somehow you think whining about it daily on the internet is magically going to create a solution? Realistically there doesn't seem to be many options. It is what it is at this point so it seems more logical to enjoy all the success the team is having and spend less time focusing on really the only thing going wrong.