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Originally Posted by Matt Reeeeead
And that is why the trade works. It’s why Edmonton has to eat an additional $10m+ as well as a likely 3rd round pick.
Trades are supposed to benefit both teams. In this case it wasn’t about one player really being better than the other. It was about skill sets that could be better leveraged by one team more than another.
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I still think the Flames would have been better off retaining around 2 million of Neal's salary and packaging him with a first rounder or something to that effect instead of taking back so much cap hit in return.
I think Flames fans will want the ~ 3million in cap space created by such a deal more than Lucic and his $5 mil at some point over the next 4 seasons.