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Originally Posted by Monahammer
It's a way different situation. Quitting on a team and ownership group who has done nothing but make poor choices for the last 6 years of your career while you showed loyalty to them =/ quitting because it's an undesirable location.
If a team makes a big pitch for him and brings him in to be the golden boy and to build around, no doubt the clock restarts.
Sitting at home instead of playing for a team that acquired you is disasterous. 1 youre not getting paid during the hightimes of your career, 2 you're not upping your future value.
Presumably Buffalo wants to move him because they no longer want to build around him, for whatever reason.
I just don't see how the two situations (eichel's current demand to leave Buffalo vs him sitting out entirely rather than playing for an acquiring team) are at all comparable. But please, Cliff and Cobra, enlighten me at how they are at all the same?
When was the last time a player refused to report to the team he was traded to?
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You have made some good points.
But I doubt any team trades for a Eichel without discussing whether he wants to play for them. They’d be fools not too.
And Calgary minus the players they would need to give up for him ( and it’s not going to be Monny and futures) is simply not a very good team to go to regardless of the location for an American player. Especially when Calgary would have no cap space to make improvements.
And I expect many, many teams could easily beat any offer Calgary could make.
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