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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
My guess is the no protected top 10 was the price the Sabres had to pay for no conditional elements to the trade (based on Eichel playing X number of games, achieving X number of points, etc.).
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Good point but if Eichel returns to form it's hard to imagine this trade ever looks good in retrospect for the Sabres and I don't think Vegas will bottom out enough to be picking top 5 this season. I guess they must think Krebs has franchise player potential.