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Old 07-22-2019, 09:47 AM   #2085
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
You have a crystal ball that says all the hard work he's supposedly putting in this off-season will not pay off in a rebound year? I get that some of you have decided to put a positive spin on this trade and that's fine but I don't know how you can take some posters to task for not liking this trade and then post something like this. Sorry but I'm not buying your forecast. I feel Neal has a much better chance of rebounding and I'm not alone because even Treliving himself set an over/under 21 goals for him with the trade condition he negotiated. Nobody is saying Neal is going to turn into a 40 goal scorer but it's very plausible he returns to his 20 goal scoring ways next season which is supposedly what Treliving thought he was getting when he signed the player a year ago.
Not sure you really read my post carefully. I made a key distinction that Neal was never going to get the opportunity to rebound with us because he had already proven to not be a fit in any way.

I did note that Neal could rebound with the Oilers. My point was that he would never get that opportunity to rebound with us because he did not earn it and had zero fit in our lineup. Neal can rebound but it was never going to be with us. My point was that fans who still wanted to give him another chance misread the situation, he was never going to get that chance and didn’t deserve another chance.
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