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Originally Posted by Bingo
Fans always turn on bit players in my experience ... lots of anger to the 6/7 defenseman or fourth line forwards. They like backup goalies though.
But I wonder team history who is the most useless player / $ in team history.
Neal may just take it.
Brouwer was bad. Raymond? Bollig? Lucic now I guess given the value.
Some of the ones that looked bad didn't turn out bad at all like Engellend.
I think it's Neal.
Glad they found a way out of it, took on a fan favourite and then got to watch the guy sewer and stick a rival with a buyout penalty.
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I think Ladislav Smid takes it. The way I see it is that Neal only got paid for the one year by Calgary, because they traded him. Smid had 3 seasons x $3.5M for a total of 109GP, 1G, 7P, -23 because of injuries. I get that injuries really derailed his career, but I didn't like the fact we traded for him in the first place. Ex Oilers rarely work out for the Flames.