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Originally Posted by 868904
But if you trade for him, you are committing to it AND you are losing player assets.
I mean, if the Flames are ok with Eichel's surgery, I'd prefer this route. Flames only lose the money with the cap hit going on LTIR anyways and you don't lose the prospects and draft picks.
On the open market, you get a few bidders and he can probably get close to $50 million with how dumb GMs are.
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You won’t know how successful the surgery is until he plays. There is virtually zero chance that the surgery will be deemed unsuccessful upon completion. So with that, I would suggest Eichel could probably get more than the $10MM he currently gets, especially with the possibility of putting him on LTIR if there are complications when he starts playing.