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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Sigh. I really get tired of this narrative that Eichel had no one to play with. Eichel got to play with Ryan O'Reilly, Evander Kane, Sam Reinhart, Kyle Okposo, Matt Moulson, Jeff Skinner, Connor Sheary, Victor Olofsson, and Taylor Hall to name a few. Not a murder's row of talent, but a number of high end talents there. If Eichel is the world beater and elite talent, then he should be elevating the talent around him, not reliant on other players to make him better. Eichel has never been able to do that, not even with Jeff Skinner who had similar numbers while playing for Carolina. The best comment I've seen in the Eichel discussion of late was from a journalist who stated Eichel is not the guy you build around because he doesn't have the mentality to carry the load. Eichel is best served being a guy on a team who just goes out and plays. As long as we recognize what we are getting and not having unreasonable expectations (too late for that IMO) we could make this work.
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Okposo….Moulson…Sheary… Olofsson… Reinhart (at the time). Come on man.
Your other names presented are a good point though.