I’m fine with this.
We finished first in the west in spite of Neal, and when we needed him to step it up in th playoffs he was worse than he was in the regular season.
I don’t think Lucic will have a problem having better production than Neal with better 3rd/4th line teammates. Plus his give a cr@p meter is a lot higher than Neal so that will hopefully give guys like Jankowski a push.
The next time we play the Oilers and Kassian is running away, or Kadri is turtling with on the Avs everyone with be pretty happy.
Don’t forget that getting rid of Neal’s contract was always going to cost us something. If he could have performed like we thought he could have then this trade wouldn’t have happened. Both teams were trading from weakness. If Neal was a problem in our room I can’t see him having a better attitude in Edmonton.
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