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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Right, but Lucic wasn't scoring 20 with McDavid.
So they traded a worse contract of a worse player who couldn't produce for a bad contract for a player who actually can.
If Neal scores 40 points next year playing with McDavid and Lucic scores 20 points playing with Jankowski, it's a home run for Edmonton.
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I don't know. I mean, yes, it's good for Edmonton that they would be getting production commensurate to the price being paid for the player, but at the end of the day that whole roster simply does not look like one that will improve significantly on their 80-points finish from 2019—even with James Neal scoring 20 goals on the top line.
· One team is bad which will remain bad after swapping one bad contract for another.
· The other team won the Division and the Conference, and should be in the conversation to win both again this year after swapping one bad contract for another.
That's a win I can happily concede to Edmonton.