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Originally Posted by Monahammer
So Larry brooks article is speculating that rangers would include Kakko If eichel was 50% retained.
That seems ridiculous, but it does make me wonder if some retention is on the table and that is increasing negotiations.
Also, hf is abuzz with San Jose speculation. We cannot let another Thornton situation happen.
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That kind of retention on eichel would be crazy. Plus it’s not like retaining salary for one or two years… it’s 5 years and it would be $5 million in salary retention. I can’t see that happening. If they are truly willing to retain that much salary, I don’t think the flames have the assets to get eichel. His value would be too high.
San Jose is such a strange team. They seem unable to rebuild properly because of all the old players that they have signed to long-term contracts. I’m not familiar enough with their prospects to know if they have what it takes to get eichel and I’m not sure how much cap space space they have. They have a lot of expensive contracts I think. Also, they were burned very recently by trading a large package of players to acquire a superstar player.
However, would not surprise me to see them go for him. They’ve been a good team for so long, they probably don’t like the taste of being a bad team that rebuilds through high picks.
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