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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Wonder if the newly realized cap space is a reason why the Flames are edging back in on Eichel
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If we're back in the Eichel race, great. But I can't see the reason we are back talking is because of the extra cap we got.
The Flames have known for a little while that Seattle would probably take Gio, it's not really a surprise to anyone that we have some extra cap. Buffalo definitely knows our cap situation very well if we've had any serious talks.
I'm sure the Flames ran multiple different scenarios on who Seattle would take and how that would affect our chances on potentially trading for Eichel. They probably could of started doing this analysis the day after our last game if talks started that early.
Hell, it's probably not that hard to have a deal in principle with Buffalo even before the expansion draft, "if Seattle takes Gio, we trade X, Y, Z for Eichel".
Calgary, if they are back in the Eichel race, has to be due to something else.