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Originally Posted by Sofa GM
This is a bad assessment, the fact we missed the playoffs speaks to the lack of our organizational depth. By giving away numerous higher end assets to acquire Eichel it will get much worse before it gets better. If we were to give up assets according to some of the proposals on here, we would sink into the depths.....
Eichel is not god, he is a hockey player with a bum neck....
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No, wrong. We missed the playoffs because our top end players consistently underperform in crunch time.
At most, the rumored pieces that we would include in an eichel trade take 2 players out of our current top 9. In exchange, we get a player that is potentially our best player. Then we give up futures.
So we're talking about really exchanging 2 pieces of the current top 9 and some players not playing for us right now (and who may never play with us- not like we're handing out NHL chances with Sutter at the helm.) The current top 9 who has won nothing and choked in the playoffs consistently.
The depth issues were hopefully solved by bringing in players like Pitlick, Coleman, and Lewis. All three are superior to Ritchie, Simon and Nordstrom. If you believe Coleman is a top 9 player, than bringing him + Eichel in immediately fills the two top 9 holes created moving for eichel.