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Old 07-31-2021, 11:43 PM   #1985
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As game as I am for Eichel, this is just too much. Two players out of our top six for one improvement is a mistake because it means that we downgrade the other spot.

He's a 3-4 solid piece acquisition. When we include a young controlled asset playing and producing in a top 6 role, that is a huge piece and should only require 2 more A level pieces such as a first and Zary or Coronado. A kicker could be a second rounder, but beyond that, I think you are massively out bidding what the market is and have deflated your team.
You’re right, and while I don’t want to re-state why I believe Eichel is worth overpaying for, my point was more that even by overpaying, we don’t set ourselves that far back. Certainly not far enough back to turn us into some lottery team, as some predict.

All the evidence points to it being far easier to acquire a decent top-6 winger than the player in the highlight pack nobody wants to watch.

Imagine saying this sentence in three years, or for the next 30 “We could’ve got Jack Eichel, but we didn’t want to lose Andrew Mangiapane.”

I don’t care how well Bread has developed, or how good season he had.

Repeat the exercise for the player or prospect of your choosing - it doesn’t become less silly.

“We could’ve got a 26 year old Joe Thornton under contract for five more years, but we didn’t want to trade Dion Phaneuf.”
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