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Old 07-21-2019, 12:26 PM   #1916
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Originally Posted by zamler View Post
Are you saying Tre made a series of bad decisions to the point where he backed himself into a corner and had no choice but to take the worst and only choice available to him? Or is keeping Neal driving off the cliff.
More or less, yeah.

The Neal contract was the mistake. I think there were many reasons to support the signing itself when it was signed, so I don't think it was terrible hockey management, but more a terrible result.

I know I was in the camp of thinking it would be 18-22 goals for two years, one at 17, then a decline to say 15 and 10 for the final two years.

But given the fact that it didn't work out, this was the only option.
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