Yeah that sucks thinking about Eichel, locking down a young all star center like that would have really set the flames up to go head to head with anybody for a while and just as importantly I feel like would have increased likelihood of keeping Tkachuk having a similarly aged high end USA hockey teammate in the fold, but the injury risk wasn't insignificant. I will say that I thought at the time that Krebs was ridiculously overrated and couldn't really understand why people thought he was so much better than Zary and Buffalo made a bad call there but they also saw upside in Tuch that I don't think many believed was there and it worked out ok for them....
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