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Originally Posted by New Era
Is there a connection between his team being a tire fire his whole career and him not being this mythical game breaker people claim him to be? Eichel is not McHobo. He's not even remotely close in any way. He's a very good player, but every team has very good players. Jack Eichel is not a game breaker. If he was the Sabres would be way better than they are. I would consider a trade for him, but you have to be very careful with the expectations you have of this player and recognize you are getting a $10M version of Monahan/Lindholm level player. This guy is not going to arrive and turn this team around or provide an immediate offensive threat. So you have to recognize that the cost better be worth the squeeze. If you can do a trade where Tkachuk and Eichel are the principles involved, I could see something work, but the budget is going to be messy.
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He is essentially a point per game player, on a historically bad franchise. Off the top of my head I think his wingers have been reinhart, okposo, skinner, kane. Yikes.
Last year he was a top 5 player in the league. If you combine counting stats 78 points in 68 games and was +5, with possession stats (dominated corsi, fenwick his whole career) and his zone entries last year were at the very top, as well as a one man break out.
I know you are anti advanced stats... but watch him play he passes the eye test too.
I would argue the biggest concern is maybe faceoffs.