[News] James Neal on waivers

[Yoho]

Oilers Waiving Neal Helps Prove Why They Won Lucic Trade
https://thehockeywriters.com/oilers-...s-lucic-trade/

Some good laughs.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Oilers Waiving Neal Helps Prove Why They Won Lucic Trade
https://thehockeywriters.com/oilers-...s-lucic-trade/

Some good laughs.

So the Oilers won the trade because Neal is so bad they have to send him to the taxi squad? That's like saying the Corona Virus has been a great thing for mankind because we learned how to deal with a pandemic.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Oilers Waiving Neal Helps Prove Why They Won Lucic Trade
https://thehockeywriters.com/oilers-...s-lucic-trade/

Some good laughs.

The author of this is clearly a partisan clickbait hack.

https://www.fantasypros.com/nhl/news...nst-flames.php

https://www.fantasypros.com/nhl/news...ver-flames.php

He obviously hates the Flames, and he’s burnt his credibility on his Neal waivers lunacy.

[GioforPM]

He got dragged hard in the comments.

It doesn’t even make any sense. Lucic’s contract doesn’t allow him to be taxi squadded but he can certainly be healthy scratched, which effectively is all that is happening with Neal, since there’s no cap relief there.

If the Flames wanted to scratch Looch and bring in a guy from the squad like Gawdin, they’d be able to do it.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Boreal

The author of this is clearly a partisan clickbait hack.

https://www.fantasypros.com/nhl/news...nst-flames.php

https://www.fantasypros.com/nhl/news...ver-flames.php

He obviously hates the Flames, and he’s burnt his credibility on his Neal waivers lunacy.

He also ignores the actual dollars saved by Calgary, which is especially important in a COVID world. It likely allowed Calgary to spend to the Cap, something they may not have been able to do otherwise.

I've also said the both players stink but Neal stinks more. But I'm prepared to revise my view, and state that Lucic plays a credible third line role and is an NHL player. Neal should likely never suit up again. Calgary was won every aspect of this trade. Now if Lucic needs to be protected for an expansion slot, that could change things. But I think that chances of that occuring are basically nil. Lucic knows he won't be selected. And it's likely not that unappealing to him if he was.

[Robbob]

Neal probably won't meet the criteria for one of the players playing x amount of games for the expansion draft because he gets scratched so much.