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Originally Posted by Bingo
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?
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The $2 million in dead hit last two years longer than Lucic's actual contract.
When you look at it like 8 years of minor cap penalty vs 6 years of major cap penalty I lean towards the 8 years.
Lucic scored 1 goal in his last 40ish regular season and playoff games last season. He scored a bit earlier in the year but he was also getting ice time with Mangiapane and PP time. He likely wouldn't have gotten those opportunities if the Flames weren't trying to salvage the contract IMO.
I would make the argument that Lucic's on-ice play was worth about a million dollars give or take.
I don't think the intangibles of Lucic's leadership and face punching are worth millions per year. Oilers fans have tried to make the same argument with Duncan Keith and I don't buy it there either.
If Treliving gets out of the Lucic contract this summer, that would be a great move for the Flames. And at the end of the day Treliving hasn't made a lot of blunders. UFA signings are iffy at the best of times and if those are his biggest mistakes thats a good spot to be in.