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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
This. He probably feels like COVID altered the market so instead of signing the longest deal he will and most important one - he takes a year and can try again next year to really cash out- probably with better numbers after playing with Eichel.
In the meantime Buffalo makes a move to keep their franchise player happy.
Makes sense to me on both sides.
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+ he has a NMC. He can just ask Buffalo to be moved to this destination of choice at the deadline, and make a better guess at which team(s) he thinks are the closest. Buffalo gets free assets for making Eichel happy for a bit.