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Originally Posted by Corral
Not sure what is crazy about giving Neal another season to prove his worth before taking garbage off the oilers hands. There had to be a better deal here somewhere.
Most likely Neal forced this somehow but I don’t have a clue how that came to be. Clearly he told the flames he was not playing for them again after being sat by peters in the playoffs.
No matter how you shake it this is poor asset management and treliving wears this. And to let your arch rival dump their albatross contract on you? Now that is crazy
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Neal was not only garbage here, he was a player the Flames no longer wanted around.
How is this poor asset management? We signed Neal (UFA - so "free" asset), and we then traded him 1 year later for Lucic while having the Oilers retain 12.5% of his salary.
How are you judging Lucic to be an awful contract and not evaluating Neal in the exact same manner? How can you make the assumption there had to be a better deal to be had? You have literally no way of knowing that.