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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Neal has 23M left on his deal. Lucic has 14M (after retention). If Neal has a comparable season, or even start of a season, to last year, he's infinitely harder to move than Lucic. Buyout is a different beast.
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Don't agree. If Neal has a comparable season he
may become as infinitely hard to move as Lucic is. Sure we could retain Lucic's salary to get it down to 3 million, take back equivalent salary, and add picks and hope one of the other 29 teams are interested, but it seems unlikely or Edmonton would have done so. He's immovable.
$23M vs $14M in actual salary is only important to teams with low budgets looking to meet the cap floor. Not too many options and they could have taken Lucic from Edmonton at $6 million cap (even better) for late picks once the $3M bonus was paid then if they wanted him for that purpose.