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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
While I do understand the math and the logic of this trade, this is still a crap-for-crap trade with more downside to Calgary than to Edmonton. Neal had only one bad season and there is a reasonable expectation of him rebounding to have a better or even a much better season on McDavid's wing. Lucic had been in Edmonton for three seasons with both goal and point production declining in each one. There is no expectation of Lucic rebounding, as he cannot play on the top wing anymore. So, while Edmonton's potential reward in this crappy trade is a scoring top-line winger, Calgary's potential reward is a hugely overpriced Hathaway that can add some grit to the 3rd or 4th line. That's it.
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This is a good point and to me it's the largest downside of the trade which I'm pretty meh on. There's more years of evidence that Lucic is washed. Less so with Neal. I wish we could have gotten more salary retention from the Oilers due to this factor. Like forget the draft pick, 20% retention and let's do this.