James Neal has as good of a chance of bouncing back as Lucic.
The best that can likely be hoped for in my opinion is that they cut back his icetime drastically for next season, play him 4th line minutes and healthy scratch him WAY more often unless he proves he still has what it takes to be an actual NHL calibre player early in the season.
No point in trying to force him to live up to that contract since he is a sunk cost and a sunk player.
Last edited by Karl; 04-23-2019 at 09:52 PM.
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