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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
And he did it for years and years without McDavid. The Chiasson argument is just a bad look, honestly.
His shooting percentage will obviously come down to earth. But honestly, people are just going to have to accept the fact that Neal is likely to do for Edmonton what we expected him to do here.
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I will say it again. Neal is a detriment, mainly due to off ice issues from what I am pretty reliably told.
But you misunderstand the point about Chiasson. The Chiasson argument is not "Chiasson and Neal are equal players". The argument is "Chiasson scored a bunch of goals playing with McDavid etc. - how many more net goals will Neal add compared to Chiasson? If it's marginal, there's no real gain at all".
Has Neal improves their second line? Well, how many goals did that line score by this time last year and how many do they have now? Has he improved their power play? Same question. It may well be the numbers are up in such a short sample size.