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Originally Posted by Robbob
Even buried, he counts 4.675 against their cap. Or 5.475 if you want to include the amount they retained on Lucic. The Neal signing was always the mistake, but being able to to manage the 5.75M cap hit that was his contract over the last couple years has been nothing but positive. Treliving reduced the cap hit to 5.25, got a 3rd, got a serviceable bottom six player, and more importantly removed a toxic player. If you had to pick a winner so far it is clearly tilted in one direction.
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Again, because the Oilers are over $81.5M with LTIR contracts,
there is no cap savings from sending Neal down. Zero.