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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Also, trading that package for Eichel doesn't help this team.
The only way Eichel to Calgary made sense was if it was HEAVY on futures and the on-roster subtraction was kept to a minimum (read: Monahan or Backlund). The idea had to be to add Eichel to the good parts of this team, and subtracting Lindholm (and the +) to add Eichel likely would have sewered this team in the short term and the long term.
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Yeah the magic of the move would have been to have top 2 centres of Eichel and Lindholm and two really elite pairs:
Eichel-Johnny
Lindholm-Tkachuk
You take Lindholm out and suddenly it looks a lot worse. You needed to get him without taking from that top 4 forward group.