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Originally Posted by Bingo
Vegas offered Neal a contract, and they watched Neal every day. I don't like the signing, but if Vegas wasn't recognizing what was coming, I'm not sure Calgary could have. Hopefully the Flames have added some metrics/analysis to their pro scouting since though.
Peters ... his story is well known, certainly not going to defend the human. But he had a team that was backing in on their goalie because of fear of Avalanche speed. You don't coach that. In fact you coach against it, but if your team is fragile they do things to avoid being embarrassed against what the coach is preaching.
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I’ve seen this argument a couple of times.
Vegas reportedly offered Neal 5x5 at the TDL, and I believe this was reported in fact by the Calgary Sun (fwiw). I didn’t see the Calgary Sun report, but it was claimed by the Las Vegas Review Journal. Thought that was interesting.
Neal was supposedly looking for 6.5-7 x6
https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports...olden-knights/
Knowing Neal had 10 x 20 goal seasons and had reached the finals, Vegas had to know that there would be some demand
Obviously Vegas didn’t value Neal as highly as Calgary, be it in terms of dollars or term. He was north of 30 after all. There were people questioning what that deal was going to look like in year 5. Obviously surprising to all that looking downright horrible happened in year 1
From an asset management perspective, it would still make sense for Vegas to put pen to paper rather than let the UFA walk for nothing