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Originally Posted by New Era
No, the Lucic trade has hurt Calgary. That contract is absolute poison. Unless they find a way to encourage Lucic to retire the Flames are stuck with that albatross. We're stuck with that garbage for another three seasons. If you are looking or a major reason why the Flames can't improve the top six it is because they have Lucic's contract in the bottom six paying a player top six money who is providing bottom line performance. The fact the team has almost $8.5M tied up in two bottom six players is brutal.
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So you would rather trade Lucic (25% retained) and a 3rd back to the Oilers for Neal? The Oilers took Neal and his bad attitude and bad contract off our hands, agreed to pay 25% of Lucic's contract, and also had to give up a 3rd. Complain about the Neal signing as much as you want, but it wasn't a bad trade.