With top minutes on a team with many offensive weapons he still only had 64 points. I'm all for acquiring him but not at the expense of our first next year because I believe that player could be a true top line player. A game breaker. Franchise player. Don't see that in O'Reilly. Quality player but still a second tier player in my opinion. A player like Krejci has many similar qualities but he's still not a Getzlaf, Toews, Kopitar, Crosby, Giroux, etc. There are no guarantees but as things sit right now the top end of next years draft looks very good and we look like we will be picking from that group. Not to mention the additional assets we would lose in an offer sheet situation. If that is what it takes to land him it's not worth it in my opinion.
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