i voted indifferent.
For the role (bottom 6 winger) and at the terrible salaries, Lucic provides at least something, which can't be said for neal who was brouwer'esque.
That being said, inspite of the retention, the lack of any kind of sweetner to take on a unmovable, un-buyout-able, risk, looks like a bad trade.
All things being equal, i'd take lucic for the role he is better suited to play. But it isn't equal, oilers can take this chance and just buy the bad contract out. Flames are stuck, and took all this risk without any kind of asset value in return.
Clearly, something forced treliving's hand here. Things had to have gone toxic in the dressing room, with the coach, something that made the GM feel they had to get this guy away from the team.
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