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Originally Posted by Macho0978
The timeline for Kucherov's injury lined up perfectly with the start of the playoffs. Maybe he could have been back a week or 2 earlier but Tampa definetly had some luck on the timeline and start of the playoffs
Eichel's surgery has him back at least a month before the playoff start. I doubt they can pull that off.
When I look at their roster, they don't really have anyone obvious to dump that isn't a key contributor on an ok contract.
Brossiot could go and just hope Lehner stays healthy.
Dadanov is another guy but that still brings the total to around $7 mil assuming the new back up goalie is on a league min contract.
Smith is another player and he would be a rental player but he also seems to play well on this team. But someone would need to be removed from the top 2 lines.
If it is Smith and Dadonov I would think Dadonov would be hard to move without including a first. Dadonov has a NTC too so he will be very interesting if he is the one they try to move as he may not want to go to teams like Arizona or back to Ottawa
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If it’s only a month, I could easily see them pulling it off. It’s a serious back injury… they could easily say they are being cautious and want to make sure he’s 100% and completely back into “game shape”. So much of the assessment will be subjunctive to Eichel. If they can get eichel to play ball then they will be able to push it a month.
The only hitch could be if eichel really wants to play in the olympics… that would force their hand to activate him when he gets back. But again, I really think they will find players on their roster that “need” a month on LTIR. It’s not like the league would step in and do anything about it.
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