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Originally Posted by TOfan
Cringe.
The ‘I’m smarter than they are’ take without actually knowing the full story. Dubious claim.
Neal was not coming back. He had to go. Playing him up the line up in the hope he could increase his value so that you could find a taker, is a little naive. After all this is a guy who is on his fourth team in four years, and seventh of his career. For a guy who has had 12 20 goal seasons, that should raise an eyebrow. I doubt he would have come back to camp smiling and happy to do whatever was best to help the team win.
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Yeah, Neal was pretty bad news, from what I have heard. The trade wasn’t the mistake, it was not doing quite enough research on him before signing him.
And playing him up the lineup to increase trade value is: (a) not helpful to the team on the ice; (b) probably not going to work anyway; and (c) interfering with coaching decisions. Neal was on the powerplay enough to see how he’d fit with Calgary’s better players.