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Originally Posted by browntrout
If Eichel is never healthy again, this trade cripples the flames, instead of a rebuild taking 3-4 years, it will now take 6-7, that is just way to much to give for a seriously injured player, if that is what buffalo wants, move on.
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It's a risk no doubt but if not for Eichel (who's only available given his injury), then who?
I agree it would set us back but I'm not sure it would be super crippling, given a lack of desire to truly rebuild anyways.
Retaining Zary instead of Pelletier gives us a potential center who's looked fairly good in early pro play. If he's never healthy again, we would retain both our 2022 and 2023 1st which is huge given the talent pool upcoming. Pelletier, two 2nds and Valimaki would be the ones that hurt in the short term, but as a lottery ticket on a young, under contract #1C in a period where we are clearly not rebuilding anyways, meh, I'd say it's worth a gamble.