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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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If the team was indifferent to taking him back, and if they had other options than this deal makes little sense to me, I'll give you that.
However because of that I think you can assume the opposite.
The why doesn't have to be the guy was a room problem, it's possible, but it's also possible that Peters and Treliving didn't see the opportunity for the player to bounce back given the forward depth in Calgary and therefore they wanted to move him. That notion seems less dire to me though, which leans me back to the move him now.
The mistake was Neal. Most of us were good with the signing so I won't hindsight the guy. I assumed Neal was good for two years, average and then declining.