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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I knew a few things about the James Neal situation that were never made public, and suffice it to say that he was not moved just for his on-ice performance—as terrible as it was. The Flames had to get him out of their dressing room. It is nearly a miracle they got anything at all, and ridding themselves of a significant on- and off-ice problem, while also unloading some cap and getting a third round pick in return was practically a coup for how toxic things were.
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I know a few things as well, and the biggest error Treliving ever made IMO was not doing enough background work. On paper, signing a big 20 goal scorer for RW made all kinds of sense. But Neal’s issues weren’t exactly impossible to find out. Or if he did, he made the fairly common GM mistake of thinking one more change of scenery would do the trick.