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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Just saying Lucic "can't play" is the kind of factless statement that the media is using to justify criticizing the Flames in this deal. Truth is, Lucic is better than Neal in almost every quantifiable way. Heck, he's better than a lot of his other peers, too. Check out Bingo's post there, or any of Lucic's heatmaps on any advanced stats website (Micah Blake McCurdy has good ones on HockeyViz.) Lucic drives play and he does it somewhat well.
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Lucic's contract was considered one of the worst in the league before he got traded to Calgary. Not only by everyone on this site but around the league.
I don't know what kind of spin people are trying to pull around here but there should be some kind of intellectual honesty about who this guy is and why he was thought to be pretty much unmovable just a few days ago.
And yes Neal sucked hard last year but Lucic is no better.