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Originally Posted by FusionX
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.
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I am all for acquiring Eichel but the cost has to reflect the fact the dude is seriously injured. If he was healthy teams would easily give up what buffalo is asking.