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Originally Posted by fleury
I want to bring up Neal's departure again because I've been theorizing his departure was because of miscommunication with management. Surely he played badly last year, but the fact that he wasn't able to start fresh with management to start the season, and they got Lucic instead, says to me that there was a breakdown in communication all around. Now you see this year how many on the team haven't been playing up to par and you do wonder if it's him being old school and maybe Treliving not listening to the voice of the players. Has nothing to do with racism in this case, but just a bad people person.
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I dunno about "breakdown in communication", but the Neal story is pretty simple for me: He signed here, expecting to spend the season being fed easy goals by Monahan and Gaudreau. Instead, Lindholm came in and showed himself to be a much better player for that line. Neal responded by, frankly, quitting on the team. I'm not sad Neal is gone, though it still irritates me that Treliving went out to get an even worse player in his place.
Communication doesn't really mean much when you're dealing with someone who spent an entire season pouting because he didn't get the top line spot he expected.