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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
The guy has done a pretty good job for the most part.
Ideally he would have passed on the Neal contract. Also, he should have bought out the Neal contract instead of trading it for a worse contract in Lucic. If the Flames had an extra $3-4 million to play with last season they could have made a serious upgrade for their playoff run.
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Not sure I'd be happy with $1.92M on the books for 8 straight years as a cap hit from the buy out.
Better to get the Oilers to pay 13% of it and have a useful player on the roster for half that time frame.
Only one more year to go now.
Lucic is a fourth liner now for sure, with some leadership and physical intangibles, but at $5.25 I don't think he's been over paid by more than what $2M maybe $2.5M?