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Red · 07-23-2019, 10:02 PM

To me the Oilers needed a top 6 scoring winger and the Flames needed toughness.
Lucic will deliver toughness, will Neal score 25?

Salaries aside, which are brutal both teams are just trying to fill a need while having their hands tied.

Treliving is not out there trying to win a trade. He is trying to improve the team. After the exit we witnessed it's hard to argue that he addressed a huge void. IMO the team was butter soft. They could score with the best of them so Neal was expandable.

We got a very pricy goon that can play a bottom 6 game.
Going in to game 4 last of last playoffs I'd go with Lucic over a completely useless Neal. That's what Tre probably looked at.
Lucic at the very least gives guys like Dube and Mangipane some space. Neal took space from them and contributed nothing.

07-23-2019, 10:02 PM	#160
Red Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	To me the Oilers needed a top 6 scoring winger and the Flames needed toughness. Lucic will deliver toughness, will Neal score 25? Salaries aside, which are brutal both teams are just trying to fill a need while having their hands tied. Treliving is not out there trying to win a trade. He is trying to improve the team. After the exit we witnessed it's hard to argue that he addressed a huge void. IMO the team was butter soft. They could score with the best of them so Neal was expandable. We got a very pricy goon that can play a bottom 6 game. Going in to game 4 last of last playoffs I'd go with Lucic over a completely useless Neal. That's what Tre probably looked at. Lucic at the very least gives guys like Dube and Mangipane some space. Neal took space from them and contributed nothing.