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Old 10-21-2019, 02:13 PM   #114
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...What I have said is that Milan Lucic is a crap hockey player that does not address the needs of the hockey team...
Right, but if the team is no worse off on the ice for it, then it also doesn't really hurt them.

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Bringing Lucic in makes the team even slower, less skilled, and for pretty much the same money plus Reider. Yeah, we got rid of a malcontent, but at what price? We're not better, we're worse.
I completely disagree. The team is at worst not quite as good as the one that placed second in the League last year, but that has more to do with regression of some players to the mean after career seasons. The loss of Garnett Hathaway is a MUCH bigger loss for the Flames than James Neal. The exchange of Neal for Lucic DOES NOT have anywhere near so significant an on-ice impact. In a player-for-player swap between this year's Lucic and last year's Neal, the net result is pretty negligible.
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