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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Why do people keep saying that? He would help you in this years playoffs.
So long as the trade is before say, mid December.
By Christmas you would start to have a point. But we're still in eichel can play this season territory.
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I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a player who hasn’t played real hockey in well over a calendar year to be parachuted into the Stanley Cup playoffs cold following neck surgery.
He won’t have had the opportunity to train, he won’t have had any chance to build chemistry with his line mates, or trust his body to withstand the punishments of playoff hockey.
Nobody is paying a premium cost to submarine their own season.
So unless Buffalo wants to drag this out and try again next summer, they should make the best deal they can for their alienated franchise player with a broken neck.