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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
That's why the entire signing and trading of Neal has turned into such a debacle for the organization. Regardless of original intentions Treliving signing Neal was essentially a get out of jail card for the Oilers as they got rid of a player they were desperate to unload in Lucic for the player the Flames thought they were getting when they signed Neal. It's not exactly Gilmour for Leeman bad but it's one of the worst sequences of events in the history of the organization.
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Won't debate the effect on Calgary, the Neal contract leads to the Lucic contract and it's an albatross.
But I certainly don't think Neal in Edmonton results in a get of jail free situation. It's like the gates opened up on the prison, someone hit the guy with a bag full of oranges and he woke up in Guantanamo Bay.
Four years of Neal isn't freedom, just a different type of incarceration.