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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
There was an opportunity cost to not moving Neal at the deadline and that cost has been paid when the organization made him a healthy scratch for the most important game if the year.
I think there may have been a market for Neal between December and February 25th if the flames sweetened the deal appropriately.
I think that market has now dried up and the flames are stuck with him either to play him or buy him out.
Opportunity cost is something I think the NHL on a very fundamental level does not understand at all.
If treliving can move Neal for less than 3 first round picks without salary retained I'll give him a key to my heart.
Just don't think those deals are out there anymore.
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Really? Who would have gone for him? Legitimately asking. I don't think that there was a market for Neal, no one wants to take on his contract when he just barely started his 5 year deal. And, say good bye to signing any kind of UFA in Calgary if we trade Neal halfway through the season when we just signed him. It looks bad on a team when you do something like that.