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Originally Posted by Wish They Could Win
The regular season starts Tuesday. Trading for an Eichel on LTIR on Tuesday becomes much easier as you don’t have to fit his salary into the cap structure of your team until he comes back. So theoretically you don’t have to trade Monahan or another big ticket forward for 4-5 months.
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This is maybe the most interesting possibility. The Flames season starts on the 16th, so if Buffalo puts Eichel on LTIR we could trade futures almost exclusively while holding onto Monahan in the meantime. We'd be talking multiple 1sts and recent 1st round picks then.
That doesn't decimate our roster for an injured player, and gives us the ability to make a salary trade later closer to an Eichel return date post surgery. You could recoup a 1st for Monahan at least.
Now the big question is can Buffalo even put him on LTIR or does that drop them down below the cap floor?