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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
what EDM is doing is gifting Neal premium PP time with some of the best forwards in the nhl. This wasn’t possible in CGY because we have four forwards clearly better than Neal.
I don’t really see how it could have been managed better. As Enoch Root eloquently points out Neal got ice time all season that he didn’t deserve. At some point the player has to take a fair chunk of the blame if he’s useless at playing on any line outside of line 1.
This is on Neal. Neal was out of shape. Neal didn’t put in the hard work and effort. Neal sucked. Neal was gifted ice time he didn’t deserve.
It’s a fantasy some are choosing to buy into that it could have gone better. It is what it is.
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I'm pretty sure the Flames tried all sorts of on and off ice stuff with Neal to turn the script, but it didn't work.
The fact Neal got booted so unceremoniously maybe gave him a wakeup call that had a bigger effect than what the Flames could possibly have done internally.