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Originally Posted by Wolfman
Eichel won't be playing for 2-3 months. The Sabres hold all the cards in all this. They have zero urgency to trade him right now. Sabres are waiting for a team to offer them the moon. Otherwise, why rush a deal from their perspective?
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NMC kicks in next summer. They can hold him back until the start of the year at which point who is trading for him? He's 2-3 months at minimum from playing then and may miss the whole season. So the idea that the Sabres can wait for the biggest loser to step forward, take their 1OA and complete the trade doesn't work. Those teams are likely to keep their 1OA if they know they're out of it and why would they trade for Eichel at that point anyway? Then, when teams do want to look at Eichel he has his NMC to limit where he can go. And probably still hasn't had the surgery yet.