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Originally Posted by Bingo
If you sign a similar player it's $3M a season ball park, because Hathaway at $1.5M isn't the same deterrent.
So Neal at $5.25M is overpaid as a bottom six forward, agree 100%. But if he's an above average deterrent and doesn't get filled in defensively he's only overpaid by $2.25M
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1) You don’t sign a Hathaway player for 1.5, you sign them for league minimum two way contracts or use entry level contracts.
2) You don’t keep a goon on the roster every game, they are in the press box for league minimum
Lucic might work, he might not, but Treliving pulled the trigger too fast. Neal had one poor season, Lucic three.
I want it to work, I want Neal to crash and burn while dragging down McBeggarface and Drabbadabadaisaddle, but I still don’t understand the valuation of Lucic vs Neal.
I consider Treliving a good GM so I will assume there were other influences to the trade. But if that was the reason (off ice stuff maybe or a trade request) he could have traded Neal anywhere but Edmonton. Anywhere.
He took the worst contract in the league. What if Neal plus a third could have landed Turris, isn’t that a much better trade? Or another, less incredibly overpaid player. Why not add to Neal and get something good back?