Quote:
Originally Posted by Strange Brew
If you truly believe Neal is the worst player in the league and will sabotage whatever team he is on, I can only imagine what your opinion must be of the GM who signed him to a cap busting long term deal.
I honestly don't know how long we can go around and around essentially saying the same things, it was a clusterf*** in every way possible.
The signing itself was disaster. Poorly thought out and researched it would seem.
The player himself was an utter disaster in his one year here, in every way possible.
The attempts to rehabilitate or extract some value from him during the season failed miserably.
The trade for Lucic was poor asset management with the team selling as low as possible on an asset. Because of the first three failures, it seems Treliving saw no other option.
Really the only thing that could happen that would change my view on any of this is if Lucic showed he was more than a replacement level player, which I'm really not seeing.
|
Agree completely on the signing, and assessing the team's (Treliving's) ability to sign UFAs.
If you want him gone, and can't buy him out you shop him. I honestly think the Lucic option was the only one available. So not sure I see it as asset management at that point, but sunk cost accounting.
Interesting to see the replacement player thing ...
To date Evolving Wild has the two players at the following
Goals Above Replacement
Neal -0.7
Lucic 0.2
Wins Above Replacement
Neal -0.1
Lucic 0.0
In both measures, Neal is the one below replacement value, and that includes all ice time, not just even strength.
Neal is a boat anchor when it comes to even strength offence at a -1.8, which matches what we saw last year to a "T"