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Originally Posted by Bingo
Almost 3 dozen articles have been written in Edmonton on ways to get rid of Lucic. It's been in the rumour mill since the trade deadline as an obsession.
We heard about it before the draft, at the draft, after July 1st, after they paid the bonus.
Holland isn't writing articles but the feel felt pretty desperate to me.
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A desire is different than desperation to me.
I mean, just really consider the situation with Neal.
He was a below replacement level player who went 21 games without a goal, left the team in the middle of the season, the Flames tried to dump him 50 games into his contract and then benched him in the most important game of the season.
Edmonton could've come back with Lucic to start this season and it would've been bad but they suck anyway and lucic still plays minutes for them. They are going to suck with or without Lucic, and their cap situation isn't at all like Calgary's.
Calgary NEEDED that 500k in cap relief to ice a roster this year. That number might be the difference between signing bennett and walking away for example.
Calgary is in the middle of their winning window with a player the entire league probably knew the Flames absolutely could not entertain coming back to the team to start the season.
Holland just arrived and didn't sign Lucic. Treliving is in year 5 as GM and Neal is his fresh signing.
Complete opposite ends of the desperation scale IMO.