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Originally Posted by GioforPM
He also set a great screen. Also played well otherwise throughout the game.
It's a bit rich calling people apologists for noting a good play. It's more like posters who hate Neal are minimizing a good play because it was Neal. If it was, say, Tkachuk, there'd be universal praise for hockey IQ, making a smart play, going to a tough area, etc.
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Ah, as if on queue.
At the slightest criticism of James Neal, the usual suspects (you’re one of them as I’m sure you are aware) ride over the hills to defend the player.
This is the point.
You and the rest of the Neal apologists have set the bar so low for this player that a relatively innocuous game like last night, where he didn’t play badly (nor did he play particularly well) is now held up in a positive light. Gee I’d hate to see what an average James Neal game looks like in your eyes, (heaven forbid a bad one).
You’re really doing him a disservice. That was not a good game for a 5.75 million dollar player, it was ‘meh’ and, if given the chance, I’d trade him for Kovalchuk (as was the original topic)