I didn't watch a lot of the Oiler games in this series so a lot of my "takes" are second hand information that I am reading from Oiler fans.
From their perspective, Neal played fairly well and likely deserved a promotion that Tippett never gave him. That sounds like a perfect recipe for the mopey Neal that we saw here. That would be lovely to watch and would add a little more value to that Lucic contract if Oil fans could flip their love of the guy for hate like they are doing with Nurse and especially Kassian.
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