If LA can get Eichel without giving up too many future assets I can see a fit.
But if LA is giving up Byfield, or/and 1st and 2nd rounders, to take another run at it. I just don't see how that doesn't end up poorly for them. Kopitar and Doughty are great players, but they're no Crosby and Malkin.
LA has their cups, I think they would be smart to commit properly to the rebuild. I don't see how giving up the assets required to get Eichel wouldn't handcuff their rebuild.
In Calgary, with Sutter on board, some decent players and youth in the system, and Markstrom on a 6x6, to go along with some organizational desperation, I forsee them selling their souls to try and take a run in the next 2 to 5 years. For better or for worse.
I also think, whatever happens, we are in for an ugly rebuild in about 5 to 8 years. It's not happening next year. We all want it to, but it's not.
With young players like Dube, Mange, Pelletier, Zary, and maybe a couple others forming a decent foundation of middle six players going forward I forsee plenty of 1st and 2nd round draft picks moving to try and retool the top 4 forwards.
In my mind Lindholm stays. One of Monahan or Tkachuk should move, they're just too slow to play an impact role in an ever faster NHL, and if you can aquire a better offensive player that Gaudreau can compliment, you try and keep Johnny.
I'd love to see Eichel here, but his injury worries me and I'm not sure where the pendulum swings as far as if you're actually improving the team with the type of assets required to get him.
My apathy for this team is at an all time high, I have zero attachment to any player and am looking forward to seeing the fireworks over the summer.
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