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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Eichel did not have trade protection. Krebs was a highly rated prospect, but Vegas 1st was destined to be late. Clearly Buffalo valued Tuch in that deal.
Flames didn't have much better to offer.
But they could have traded Eichel who had 5 years left on his deal to any team in the league. That trade was a head was bad from day 1 and it was because they limited their options by valuing the players over the picks.
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The reporting was pretty well known about who was in on Eichel, and it wasn't the whole league. There were maybe 4 teams.
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The Sabres even lucked out in getting a franchise center in Eichel.
And they f'd that up.
That's the tipping point. Eichel was a guy to build around on and off the ice, including to draw other players there.
Them pushing him out, including by not allowing him to have some say in how to handle his health issues, pushed them to this point.
It doesn't get talked about enough in terms of how BAD that screwed that up. The trade was meh. But the issue isn't the trade, it's what led to the trade.
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I'm not sure you can call finishing last, and getting lotteried by Edmonton for McDavid "lucky". And Eichel's a good player but in a redraft I'm not sure he goes top 3. Marner, Rantanen, Kaprizov probably go ahead. Aho and Connor aren't far behind either.