[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

Yes, I have. You talk as if the Flames hadn't drafted any good players at all in the last 40 years, which is ridiculous.



So you're fine with trading (let us say) Zary, Coronato, a 2022 unprotected 1st, a 2023 unprotected 1st, and then giving away Monahan and Coleman for future considerations so you can activate Eichel for the rest of the season?

Now you have a stone-cold Eichel who is not at 100% and may never be again, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel to find a RW you can promote to the top six, and after watching your team miss the playoffs by a mile because their shiny new #1 C was weeks away from late-season form and their shiny new #1A RW was just traded for peanuts, you find yourself taking up religion just so you can have someone to pray to that you haven't just given Shane Wright to the Sabres.

As Billy Beane says: ‘The day you say you have to do something, you're screwed. Because you are going to make a bad deal. You can always recover from the player you didn't sign. You may never recover from the player you signed at the wrong price.’

Paying the Sabres what they want for Eichel, and then dumping $10 million worth of quality NHLers to make room for him under the cap, is absolutely the wrong price. If I owned an NHL team and my GM came to me proposing a deal like that, I wouldn't allow him to wreck my team. If I wanted to rebuild, I would tell him to sell off the roster players and keep all the futures. If I wanted to make a run for it, I would tell him not to trade for any player until he knew exactly how to make the cap work. And if he insisted on trading the farm for an injured player that he couldn't even afford to pay, I'd fire his ass before he could close the deal.



If a GM is so desperate to save his job that he will do something blatantly stupid, you fire him before he makes that move, not after. I don't see any possible way that ownership would approve the kind of franchise-busting gamble some of you are talking about.

How many players better than Eichel have the Flames drafted in the first round? In 40 years there are a couple maybe's

Yes I take that risk