[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I seriously have to wonder what Eichel could do for the Flames that he hasn't done for Buffalo. Depleting the depth of the team to add Eichel pretty much makes us no different than the Sabres.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to have Eichel on the team, but if you have to cripple the team to do it, it's just not worth it. If you are adding a $10 million cap hit for several more years, I think you need to be really sure that the team has what it takes to be competitive after that, otherwise it might be just enough to handcuff the team financially and keep us on the bubble.

I would rather take our chances tanking and building through the draft.

I think you under-rate how bad the Sabres have been in D, G, and bottom 9.

Spoiler!

Eichel
Lindholm
Tkachuk
Gaudreau
Monahan/Reinhart
Backlund
Olofsson
Mangiapane

They've got 3 forwards as good as our top 6 F's.

Looks like Mittelstadt is on a bit of a tear with a 5 game pt streak; 16pts in last 18gp.


It's a bit harder to parse D:
Tanev
Hanifin/Dahlin
Gio/Andersson/Risto
Bryson/McCabe/C Miller
Jokiharju/Valimaki

Obviously Dahlin has tons of upside, but so does Andersson...

Now Markstrom >> Ullmark (UFA).

I think we could trade a D + 1-2 F's + prospect(s) and pick(s) and still be far ahead of BUF.