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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
There’s quite a bit on the menu, but the James Neal acquisition stands above the rest.
It was a disaster from the beginning and he had to be promptly removed from the team just to get him off the team, even if it meant acquiring one of the worst, buyout proof contracts in the league.
For the record, I like Lucic and he certainly brings more to the table than James Neal. But his contract is an absolute abomination.
Ultimately, the $5M+ takes away a lot of what the Flames can and cannot do in terms of cap flexibility. Depth appears to be very important to Treliving and his group, so for $5M+ and $6M+ (Monahan) to be eaten up by 2 bottom 6 forwards, that has to hurt their soul to think about.
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Not sure how spending 5.25M in cap space for 4 of the 5 years and adding a 3rd round pick is worse than spending a 12th overall selection and 2 2nd rounders on a bottom pairing Dman who played 5 playoff games for the franchise in 3 seasons.
Neal was a disastrous signing but cost only cap space. Hamonic was brought in at the cost of a top 3 Dman and played like a bottom pairing guy. Brodie became a whipping boy and once he is moved back to Gio he was a key player again. Hanifin was not living up to potential and in the 2 years since Hamonic left he has taken massive steps forward with Tanev and now Anderson