There's no doubt this will turn out terrible.
Desperation move by Treliving.
And someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but if Lucic agrees to waive NMC for excision, does that not waive NMC overall, allowing flames to trade him wherever? Our assign to AHL?
That is a reason why he would not waive it.
Let's look at worst case scenario for both teams:
Oilers: Neal sucks, Oil buy him out next year and get a few million of cap space
Flames: Lucic sucks, Flames cannot buy out, Lucic doesn't waive NMC costing the Flames a better asset, Flames stuck with $5 Mill cap hit for a useless player for 4 more years.
Who took on more risk? And for that all the flames get is $600K in cap space relief and save the owners $7 million.
Its moves like this that show why this garbage franchise never really wants to win. Only way this makes sense is the owners wanted to save money.
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