It’s a trade. No one (at least on this side of Red Deer) asked for it, and no one particularly wants it (especially on this side of Red Deer), but it’s something that happened after three weeks of nothing happening.
With the expansion draft implications should we consider this Neal and Kylington for Lucic and a conditional 3rd? If so, how is it justified?
— Ryan Good (@RyanScGood) July 20, 2019
No, we shouldn’t consider that, mostly because this trade has no impact on the Flames’ expansion draft plans.
Let’s time travel back to Thursday when Lucic wasn’t in the Flames’ plans and Neal still was.