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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's so strange how the clock strikes 12 o'clock for some players without warning. He had been incredibly consistent scoring in the range of 25 goals for his entire career and scored 25 goals for the Knights and put up 11 points for them in the playoffs. A few months later when he stepped on the ice for the Flames it's like his career was over.
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There are warning signs if you look deep enough, Apparently Neal didn't take fitness very serious and it caught up to him, A relative of mine played a charity tourney in Halifax with him and a few other NHL players the summer before his first game as a Flame and said:
"I really can't believe he's an NHL player, nice enough guy but he's not in good shape at all, it's night and day between him and Marchant"
I said it before, I'd like to know what vetting process if any was done before Treliving gave him that deal.