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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Pretty sure you and I both saw it the same. Never understood the Neal defenders either. I personally saw a terrible terrible player in the preseason, same thing in season and didn’t expect anything different in the playoffs. It was shocking to see so many people who thought he’d flip a switch in the playoffs after the whole Brouwer experience.
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I do recall you as a voice of reason.
The positive thing is that I can now retire (burn) the Neal excuse rolodex, which included such gems as: (not an exhaustive list):
- some nonsense about his stick
- some nonsense about how a guy who has had 5 teams, still needs time to settle into a new team (shouldn’t he be an expert at changing teams by now)
- some nonsense about how he’d score if he was on the top line (even though he was after every PK and never looked like scoring)
- some nonsense about how he wasn’t even really trying because he was saving himself for the stretch/playoffs
- some nonsense about how his presence was the important thing, doesn’t matter if he scored or not
- some nonsense about how his shooting percentage couldn’t stay low (even though his shots were all powder puffs)
And then his defenders inventing ‘facts’ such as “the flames went on a losing streak when Neal got injured”...when they actually went in a season high 7 game winning streak...
His performance in game 4 was as despicable of a performance as I’ve seen from anyone in a Flames uniform.
If we want to get rid of Neal, we need to add a second round pick (as least) to sweeten the deal. It’s worth it!