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Originally Posted by Dajazz
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?
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If that was the trade, I'd hope that Treliving didn't elect to take on Lucic instead.
But maybe there wasn't much interest in Neal? Maybe a 32yo sniper that can't snipe wasn't gaining much interest outside of teams that wanted to trade problems. Not only that, how many teams with a problem would actually value having Neal on their roster?
Turris for Neal+ would have only held water if you believed that Nashville could get NashvilleNeal back. But looking at that roster, it's tough to imagine he's playing top-6 there, and Poile would be shown the door if Neal didn't improve (let along regress).
Other than that, I can't think of any other team that would take Neal on - let alone take Neal on without us adding.