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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
It sure feels like a shot.
You don’t know how close the Flames were to landing Eichel. Nobody even knows what was offered.
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Well, we have three productive wingers who are due big extensions.
We can’t keep all of them.
One of them structured his contract so as to get him to UFA ASAP with the most amount of money.
One of them is, at worst, a top-20 player in the league.
One of them is a 6th round diamond.
The choice is clear - offer neither of the non-top-20 players to close the most important deal since Nieuwendyk for Iggy.
And I do believe Treliving/Friedman when they say neither Mangiapane or Tkachuk were on the table, because if they were, Jack Eichel would be on this team.