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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I still think the best thing to do here is look at the Seguin, and Duchene packages to get an idea of what the starting point for Eichel.
Eichel (Seguin)
for
Monahan (Eriksson)
B Prospect - (Smith)
B Prospect - (Morrow)
or
Eichel (Duchene)
for
Monahan (Turris)
B Prospect (Shane Bowers)
Conditional 1st
Conditional 3rd
(Turris was then flipped for more pieces but this was the initial Ottawa-Colorado portion of the trade)
Probably a bit more for Eichel since he was better than Duchene or Seguin were at the time of the deal, but really I don't see a Lindros package happening here. The team trading the elite young player tends to always be disappointed in the return when these trades happen. Plus it's tough for any team to fit in $10M of cap space.
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The last sentence changes the deal a lot. Seguin and DuChene were both on pretty reasonable contracts when they were traded (their teams have since messed that up). Seguin had a fair number of years left on his too. Eichel on the other hand, is on a contract that looks expensive even now. He’s gonna have to step it up to earn it, even based on his previous numbers. Whereas Monahan’s contract is quite nice, and he’s not going to be in line for a big raise.