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Originally Posted by FlamesFanFromBC
Has there ever been an NHL reclamation project like this that has worked out?
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I don't think the flames need him to be a "reclamation project" in that they need him to go back to being a 50-60 point player.
They need him to be involved, win battles, be nasty, get into all the scrums and help build another layer of a "tough to play against" identity to the team. That's the target, at least for me. We don't need a point producing Lucic, and the flames aren't going to be putting him in high offensive situations (top 6, pp time).
If he can do that, he's far better than anything we ever got from James Neal, and is actually more of what this team needs to grow to the next level, more so than a 20 goal scorer (in my opinion).