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Originally Posted by Bingo
That's pretty much me.
So having let this digest for 20 hours I'm at this point.
- I never wanted Lucic on the Flames, yuck
- I have to keep reminding myself that Neal has left as well, which removes some of the yuck
- Lucic has the worse contract so you knew Edmonton had to kick something in
- What Edmonton kicked in doesn't balance this for me so I don't get it
- I wonder still if the Flames insisted Lucic waive his NMC, but havne't heard so and I'm nervous
- They do have time to sort that out though including a buy out in two years
- Lucic is a better fit of two players that don't fit because of physical play and not needing to play top six minutes to contribute
- Guys like Gaudreau calling Lucic tells me the Flames top to bottom really wanted Neal gone
- Which certainly pushes me to think it's more than the coach that had a problem with the guy
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Number 4 for me is the key point of why I don’t like this trade very much.
A conditional third with stupid conditions (if Neal outscores Lucic by ten their difference in value is a whole hell of a lot more than a third), and a measly 500k in cap savings is virtually no compensation for taking such a big risk.
I am very surprised that BT did not insist on including Puljujarvi, then at least there would be a possibility for the compensation to turn out to be something.
It now just looks like a straight cash saving move for the owners, which is not what you want to see when the team had it’s best season in 30 years.