One of my concerns, besides the injury and acquisition cost, is that to be a contender, you need some key players playing above their contracts. We would get no benefit from that and would instead be jumping right into his prime earning years. It wouldn’t be an issue if we had the blue chip prospects coming in that could fill the role, but we really don’t.
At best, Eichel performs up to his contract and we sneak into the playoffs despite the holes in defense and on the right side.
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