Oil90 let’s make one thing perfectly clear it don’t mean poop of you win 1 -5-10-15 playoff games all that matters is 16 so stop spouting off about that poop already ! Your team is so pathetic over 15 years you should t open your mouth once ! Get your head out of McMuffins ass and realize your team is a joke and you have no right ragging other teams until your teams does something other than pick first overall - ruin said picks your the professor on meaningless hockey cause that’s all your team plays so teach me something about that cause that’s all u know !! Or can you understand what I just said ??
- Hockeyfan4life14

Wow very coherent group of sentences and excellent grammar might I also add...so no I could not understand anything you just said...

Tone deaf Oilers fan fails to check roster and see:

$4M Kris Russell
$6.5M James Neal
$2M Mike Smith
$2M Alex Chiasson

So. $14.5M tied up in 4 guys that generally suck at the NHL level. Way to not be a moron.

And all are on the actual depth chart... not to mention $2.25M "I broke McDavid" Brandon Manning...

Troll better. Please.
- rmull905

Neal had one bad year his whole career playing with garbage centers. Yoour second line center had like 47 points.. His most common linemate was Sam No Pull Up Bennett??.. Not sure he belongs on this list at all. Its not the Oils fault your awful GM overpaid him only to move him for an even more overpaid and more useless player in Luc. Also Chassion just had a career year scoring over 20 goals. But yeah, doesn't belong in the NHL and Luc who scored like twice after scoring the first Oiler goal of the season will put you over the top looool. Flamers logic. Manning, the guy that scored more goals last year than your rookie prodigy Dube?

Neal had one bad year his whole career playing with garbage centers. Yoour second line center had like 47 points.. His most common linemate was Sam No Pull Up Bennett??.. Not sure he belongs on this list at all. Its not the Oils fault your awful GM overpaid him only to move him for an even more overpaid and more useless player in Luc. Also Chassion just had a career year scoring over 20 goals. But yeah, doesn't belong in the NHL and Luc who scored like twice after scoring the first Oiler goal of the season will put you over the top looool. Flamers logic. Manning, the guy that scored more goals last year than your rookie prodigy Dube?
- Leichs

Defending Neal for last years performance is a bad look man, anyone who knows hockey knows his history and how he has been a gritty, consistent, 20 goal scorer, but last year wasnt a blip in the radar, its who neal is now as a player, and that isnt gonna change. He might be the biggest whiner in the NHL right now. Bennett wasnt the problem my friend, Neal was a massive anchor to every linemate he played with last year, it wasnt other players around him bringing him down, he literally could not keep up. He was the bad seed. You will see it soon enough.

The Lucic story is an intriguing one, he had a lot of expectations coming in, and also I had no idea about him losing his father and how that affected him. I can only imagine!

In calgary, he has zero pressure. In Edmonton, he had all the pressure. He is also entering a winning environment, not a losing one, big difference. Ignorant oilers fans like you an oil90 are too pigheaded to realize it, and talk trash and troll terribly, when you literally have nothing to stand on. Be humble, its a good look.

Defending Neal for last years performance is a bad look man, anyone who knows hockey knows his history and how he has been a gritty, consistent, 20 goal scorer, but last year wasnt a blip in the radar, its who neal is now as a player, and that isnt gonna change. He might be the biggest whiner in the NHL right now. Bennett wasnt the problem my friend, Neal was a massive anchor to every linemate he played with last year, it wasnt other players around him bringing him down, he literally could not keep up. He was the bad seed. You will see it soon enough.

The Lucic story is an intriguing one, he had a lot of expectations coming in, and also I had no idea about him losing his father and how that affected him. I can only imagine!

In calgary, he has zero pressure. In Edmonton, he had all the pressure. He is also entering a winning environment, not a losing one, big difference. Ignorant oilers fans like you an oil90 are too pigheaded to realize it, and talk trash and troll terribly, when you literally have nothing to stand on. Be humble, its a good look.
- Emcee27

If Neal regains to 30% of what he was before signing in Calgary, this deal is a win for the Oilers. No one actually wins largely, but if Edmonton can pull 12-15 goals out of Neal, and Lucic does what he has the past 2 years, even at a small cap savings for the flames, it is in Edmontons favor. For one, they rid themselves of a fan and media hated player. No one could stand him, at least with him in Calgary, if he scores 1 more goal than Milan fans will say.... "well at least he wasnt Lucic". And no, people wont compare them comparatively at the time. If he has 1 more goal, or 1 more point... "well at least he wasnt Lucic". If Milan scores more than him they may, MAY, be a little upset about it, but Lucic was brought to Edmonton to provide solid secondary scoring, and some leadership, which he provided none of. His secondary asset was to be a body to intimidate and protect McDavid and Co. In Calgary, he is just being brought in for his 2nd skill. The 3rd reason Edmonton fans are ecstatic about the move, besides that they thought it would take a 2nd asset to rid themselves of Lucic, is that it removes them that much more of the Chia era. An era that looked like the turn around was happening, and he just dug it deeper.

As much as the game may have passed Neal by, it has lapped Lucic in Edmonton's fans eyes. Neal may not be able to keep up to the pace of play now days, Lucic cant keep up to the pace of play from 3 years ago let alone nows. Good luck with him, and thank you for taking a piece of Chia out of our dumpster. At least the piece we took back is from current managements dumpster.

If Neal regains to 30% of what he was before signing in Calgary, this deal is a win for the Oilers. No one actually wins largely, but if Edmonton can pull 12-15 goals out of Neal, and Lucic does what he has the past 2 years, even at a small cap savings for the flames, it is in Edmontons favor. For one, they rid themselves of a fan and media hated player. No one could stand him, at least with him in Calgary, if he scores 1 more goal than Milan fans will say.... "well at least he wasnt Lucic". And no, people wont compare them comparatively at the time. If he has 1 more goal, or 1 more point... "well at least he wasnt Lucic". If Milan scores more than him they may, MAY, be a little upset about it, but Lucic was brought to Edmonton to provide solid secondary scoring, and some leadership, which he provided none of. His secondary asset was to be a body to intimidate and protect McDavid and Co. In Calgary, he is just being brought in for his 2nd skill. The 3rd reason Edmonton fans are ecstatic about the move, besides that they thought it would take a 2nd asset to rid themselves of Lucic, is that it removes them that much more of the Chia era. An era that looked like the turn around was happening, and he just dug it deeper.

As much as the game may have passed Neal by, it has lapped Lucic in Edmonton's fans eyes. Neal may not be able to keep up to the pace of play now days, Lucic cant keep up to the pace of play from 3 years ago let alone nows. Good luck with him, and thank you for taking a piece of Chia out of our dumpster. At least the piece we took back is from current managements dumpster.
- wreckage

I have no doubt Lucic was really unpopular in Edm but rumour is, so was Neal in Calgary so let's call that a wash. As far as on ice, whichever returns to somewhat serviceable will be a win for that team. I think Neal has the better buyout contract but at least the Oilers will be on the hook for some of Lucic's contract even if they buy him out. Either way both players and their contracts are a bag of poop so not sure why anyone would be gloating. I love the commentators on Oilers TV last night calling for Neal to get back to the high 20s. Nothing like setting those high expectations.

Defending Neal for last years performance is a bad look man, anyone who knows hockey knows his history and how he has been a gritty, consistent, 20 goal scorer, but last year wasnt a blip in the radar, its who neal is now as a player, and that isnt gonna change. He might be the biggest whiner in the NHL right now. Bennett wasnt the problem my friend, Neal was a massive anchor to every linemate he played with last year, it wasnt other players around him bringing him down, he literally could not keep up. He was the bad seed. You will see it soon enough.

The Lucic story is an intriguing one, he had a lot of expectations coming in, and also I had no idea about him losing his father and how that affected him. I can only imagine!

In calgary, he has zero pressure. In Edmonton, he had all the pressure. He is also entering a winning environment, not a losing one, big difference. Ignorant oilers fans like you an oil90 are too pigheaded to realize it, and talk trash and troll terribly, when you literally have nothing to stand on. Be humble, its a good look.
- Emcee27

He actually pays for this site... should explain allot. oil90 is barely articulate and even the Oil faithful think he's an ass-clown.

Both Neal and Lucic were traded for the same reason. I personally think Neal has a better chance for a reboot but thats if the stars align and I think Lucic will have no pressure so he'll play hopefully his old game. Same can be said for Smith and Talbot. I look at the moves as being a wash. Take these guys out of the equation and look at whats left. Outside McDavid and NeonLeon, its pretty shallow but potentially better than last season. Defense, well, thats another story.

Meh, just under a month to go... stirring the pot is a good thing.