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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's pretty fair as he notes that the odds of Neal rebounding isn't great so it's not like he's on the James Neal bandwagon and he's simply stating what a lot of Flames fans have tried to ignore is that Lucic is really, really, really bad. I don't agree that it's fireable but I do agree with his title in that it's inexplicable.
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It's inexplicable when you sit there with the train of thought that buying him out was even an option to begin with. It's easy for a man sitting behind a keyboard typing a garbage article to say when he's not on hook to pay a player millions upon millions of dollars for 8 seasons not to play for your organization.
Also according to Corsica Lucic's WAR over the past two seasons was +0.21 (fourth best behind the big three in Edmonton) not a -0.8 like he claims. Neal had a WAR of -0.36 last season.. Which was by far the worst of any Flames regular.. So according to those numbers the entire premise of his article was flat out false. Even if you uses other sources (that provide varying results) Neal is consistently and considerably worse than Lucic statistically based on last year
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Yup, Lucic “makes everyone out there taller,” but he also makes them slower, less likely to score, and more likely to be scored on. All for just $5.25 million for the next four seasons? What a deal.
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Also how can you possibly end the article that way? Replace Lucic with Neal in that statement, remove the "makes everyone out there taller" remark, and change the 5.25M for the next four seasons to 6.5M and the same holds true for the Oilers.. What a deal indeed.