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Originally Posted by Sainters7
At the very least this has been a lot of fun! This is gonna be such a sad place once he gets dealt to Vegas..
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I think Vegas' reported interest is a smokescreen put out by Buffalo to try to up the return. Most of their top players are injured, and they have no real cap space, only LTIR, so they cannot accrue cap space and would have to clear $10M in cap before they could add him to the active roster. The only way this would work is if several of Vegas' currently injured players with a combined cap hit similar to Eichel were included in the trade, and then you have to question whether those are pieces (in terms of age) that Buffalo would want in terms of their rebuild plans. Otherwise, Vegas would have to find a way to get rid of $10M in salary mid-season by means of cap dump, which would cost them a lot of assets.