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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Well, its a certain that if Eichel is acquired for our futures, the rebuild is ####ed because you won't have any good prospects left and you're carving out a couple high draft picks when the team is going to be terrible. You trade for Eichel and he doesn't comeback and be this dominant player people have been calling him, its an organizational crushing loss and damning the team to being a laughing stick for a decade or more. You make the trade, he has to be a dominant PPG+ player for you. Anything else is a horrible loss.
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I could not agree more, if I am Calgary, first round picks are off the table, and that would have to be non negotiable.
Monahan, valimaki and a prospect. If Eichel does not come back healthy, this trade does not completely decimate any hope of a quick re-tool/re build. A lost first round pick considering where this organization currently is combined with a broken Eichel is crushing.
I healthy Eichel I would have absolutely no problem with a traded first round pick, this very serious injury in which he may never regain full mobility clouds things tremendously. I think you can see that many teams are unwilling to trade their best prospects/ potential first round lottery picks for this type risk, hence why you have not seen him traded yet.
If Brad trades for him, Eichel is never healthy again, and the flames lose out on a high first round pick, he should be fired, and this coming from a guy that defends him alot