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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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The Flames also saved a ton of actual cash from the trade.
That actually made a difference to how much money the Flames had to spend, as they may not have been allowed (internally) to spend to the cap if they bought out the Neal contract. This was one case where actual dollars may have been as important as cap dollars.