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Originally Posted by jonkaupp
Really ignoring the albatross contract here but ok. I guess previous poster already alluded to how it saves the Flames owners some cash so we should be happy with that. Lol. Pretty major consensus across hockey world that Neal has a much better chance of bouncing back, and if he doesn’t then you buy him out after next season. No option with Lucic, virtually no reason to believe he will become anything but a negative WAR player again, and no chance to buy out his contract (at least with any meaningful cap savings). Doing favours for the Oilers isn’t my idea of a good move.
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Lucic was a positive WAR player last season, 4th on the Oilers.
Neal was the second worst WAR player in Calgary last year and a negative.