We are also getting a guy who has played basically a full season for 9 straight seasons (including the half season due to lockout) while averaging 230 hits a year over the past 6 seasons. We finally have a tank and it cost us a player who was pouting and a distraction in the locker room. Lucic was also a 50 to 60 point player in 5 of those 9 straight near all games played seasons only missing out on 50 points during the half season, a 44 point final campaign in Boston and the previous two recent train wreck seasons in Edmonton.
Is he going to score 50 points again?? Most likely not but 35-40 points I think could be doable and without a doubt we are going to get a guy ready to go to battle for his team and punish the opposing team to the tune of 200+ hits. There are aspects of this trade that are hard to stomach without a doubt but it’s not all that bad the more I logically think about it.
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