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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Fair points for sure; my stance is I look at 32 YO Neal and don’t think that he is going to be the player to help push Edmonton back into the playoffs whether he finds his scoring touch or not with gifted minutes alongside McDavid or Draisaitl yet that’s the expectation here from Edmonton’s POV, they think they’ve hit paydirt with Neal and finally have that top 6 winger who’s going to score boatloads for them. Whereas Lucic is joining a team where he can go about his business and try to add an element that he has in spades that’s been sorely lacking in the Flames line-up for much of the current crop of young stars duration here thus far. To me this trade has a bigger chance of blowing up in Edmonton’s face than Calgary’s strictly because of expectations. Are we expecting Lucic to be a top 6 saviour here?? God no, but Edmonton is expecting that from Neal and they are paying 6.5 mill for that hope now which is ludicrous to me.
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