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Originally Posted by Hackey
The Neal signing and Hamonic deal are Tre's biggest blunders by far, but I was honestly excited when both of them happened. Probably just being an optimistic fan, but I did not see those turning out as poor as they did. Hamonic was fine as a player, but just never seemed to live up to expectation. The one consolation is that no players in that draft have really made an impact yet outside the top 10.
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I agree 100%
When Hamonic was acquired he was billed as a top pairing D who was signed for 3 years at 3.8M and also was likely going to stay here long term. The thought of having 2 legit top pairs was exciting especially since it looked like the Oilers were going to become a problem. Obviously he and Brodie didn’t even look like a second pair let alone 1B.
Same with Neal. I felt the Flames needed 2 top 6 forwards going into the offseason. When Ferland was swapped with Lindholm I felt the team upgraded but still needed a legit goal scorer. When Neal was signed I was extremely excited to get a guy who played in the finals a couple straight years. I thought he would be hungry here and be a 30’goal threat for the first 2-3 years of the deal and the last couple might be a little rough.
Obviously the organization like my opinion was very wrong on both players.