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Originally Posted by VilleN
It's cap management. My guess is that Tre hasn't been able to get the return he wants for Frolik, so he gets rid of the Neal contract for lets say a 3-4m Lucic contract, cap savings of 1.5-2m. With the NMC gone and a lower cap hit Lucic is actually tradeable... wouldn't be surprised to see him moved before the summer is done.
Edit: didn't think about Oilers cap situation... this may actually just be a #### trade. I hope Tre has something else cooking though.
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Or as other posts have mentioned, Lucic could be traded to another team who needs to meet the cap floor and then bought out.
All dependent on the NMC being waived.
He could also be exposed in the expansion draft.