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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
The Flames finished 2nd the league without Neal. We'll make it pretty easily into the playoffs again this year.
We totally sucked ass in the playoffs last year. Lucic will help us 100,000% more than Neal in the playoffs. So upgrade!
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We finished 2nd in the league last year on the backs of a very large number of career years. If we're going to minimize the impacts of inevitable declines from some players, we need others to step up. Lucic will not help that. I doubt he even matches Neal's pitiful total from last year.
As far as how much he would help us in the playoffs, we were expressing the same hopes about Brouwer and Neal. It's not going to happen with Lucic either. If we have Lucic in the lineup instead of Neal last year, Colorado still laughs and waltzes around us.
We need guys like Tkachuk to step up to beat teams like that. Not 12th/13th forwards.