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Originally Posted by Poe969
If he makes his teammates better, why isn't the team better?
I do think he's good but I think he's over rated and not worth what some people are suggesting. And this injury and possible surgery are scary as heck. Getting him will not make the team an contender, they'll still be an average team that just gave up prospects and picks that will weaken them even more in the future.
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If the package that was discussed were to come to fruition how can you say it won’t get us closer to contender status?
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Sprinkle in whoever is ready out of Ruzicka, Phillips, Zary, Pospisil and fill in the remaining holes via free agency/trade.
Depending on how things go with the expansion draft we would still have Hanifin, Andersson, Tanev and Valimaki to build our d-core around.
Markstrom in net.
Adding a legit top line C by giving up a middling pick in a weaker draft, a 2C, a middle 6 forward and not even our top prospect but our #2 and you think we would perform the exact same and not see any improvements?
It would hurt to lose Dube and Pellitier but Eichel is a legit game changer when healthy. He is young and signed for 5 years. With modern medicine what it is and history of MMA fighter recovering from the same injury and continuing to fight, I don’t see why that deal wouldn’t be anything but a home run for us.