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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
The mid 2010s were a particularly stupid era for UFAs where talent evaluation consisted mainly of “did he score some clutch goals during the most recent playoff run”. I’ll never understand why our management and others were willing to commit multi years and multi millions to the smallest of samples sizes.
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Neal had a pretty big sample size of never scoring less than 20 goals in his whole career. The issue was no homework was done as to why Vegas was willing to let him go, and why he had been traded a few times despite his points.