That’s right, the immovable contract has been moved. Since James Neal makes 250K less than Milan Lucic, in order to sweeten the deal the Oilers retained 750K of Lucic’s salary and will send Calgary a 2020 3rd round pick if Neal scores 21 goals and Lucic has 10 goals less than Neal. This is interesting in that the Oilers actually LOST 500K of cap space in the trade, but I’ll be honest I’m willing to live with it if it meant that contract got moved.
The master-fullness of what Holland just pulled off here is that the Oilers somehow managed to trade a bottom 6 forward for a top 6 forward with little else in return.