I just can't take the argument seriously that Lucic is somehow a mitigating factor or not a huge mistake in his own right and that you can't count his acquisition as a separate screw up because Neal was already such a collosal screw up.
How does that jive? Treliving made such a big mistake that his only way out of it was to acquire a player with even less value and a substantially more problematic career trajectory and cap hit?
It's very impressive spin, I have to say. Very creative accounting.
The flames still have a 5 million dollar 4th line hole and no answers in the top 6.
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