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Originally Posted by GioforPM
At that point you are hoping he does something because you’ve little other choice. And he actually wasn’t’ in the lineup for the most important game.
All of these posts seem to assume little to no attempt to work with Neal offseason (or even in season last year) occurred. I believe this is not the case.
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I am positive they tried to work with him and improve his play. But it wasn't until the last game of the season they realized he was so bad and were better off without him? Up until then he was playing a regular shift and the first four games of that series were rather important.
There's a lot I don't know about what happened. But although his current play is unsustainable, he has shown that he is better than what we saw last year. I guess i just don't have enough information to conclude there was no chance he could come back to Calgary and at least be somewhat better than he was. As it stands, another team is reaping whatever benefits that the game 5 healthy scratch may have yielded.