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Originally Posted by CanadaMatt
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)
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I do think there are two camps.
A camp that's upset with Neal's production and a camp that is hopeful that he turns it around and becomes a better free agent signing that he's been to date.
I can even see the latter camp jumping on results that are minor in hoping that they add up to more than they have.
What I don't get is the anger towards the hopeful crowd. They're hockey fans for pete's sake that want every decision made by their team to turn out.
Ridiculing and insulting them doesn't seem all that classy to me.