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Do I want to trade Eichel? No Must we trade Eichel? Again No Could he be a problem? Perhaps What do we know of him? He's a highly expressive superstar player that was given the captaincy way too early. I wish we had Gionta at 31 when we signed him and were able to keep him around a while to give Eichel a chance to mature.

Eichel is a great player, and I rather not chase him out of town. But this hypothetical makes sense. At very least, he's possibly polarizing locker room presence. In a sense, I don't think he'd be a problem on any team with a leader; however the combination of being placed as the Messiah of Buffalo and the typical persona of Bostonians could have greatly inflated his personal ego to a point he feels that he towers over his peers to the extent they are truly beneath him. It may not even be consciously, but if most the team feels worthless compared to Jack; they would behave similarly to how they defer to him constantly.

Kessel to Seattle W5

Then who has the highest according to him would be my question?

I'd hope some of the crazed fans would go burn an effigy in front of the statue of the French Connection in that case.

Yes, because I don't want him in the conference and having to hear 50 times a year about the Rangers and them stealing Eichel. Joy, another ROR situation with the freaking owners and GM having a vendetta against a top player for no apparent reason.

I wouldn't be happy with either but LA's at least give us a Center

For me, he would be likely exchanged with Asplund depending on the situation. Both work well with Mitts but have differing strengths.

Ran this through Capfriendly Reinhart 7x7mil Mitts 5x3mil Coleman 3x4.5mil Copp 4x4.15mil McCabe 1x2.5mil Jokiharju 2x2.25 Dahlin 2x5.25 K. Miller 1x2mil Ullmark 3x4.5mil Mrazek 1x3.5mil Used Fitzgerald as the D prospect in the NJD trade (using family ties against him) Retained half of Risto's salary. Swapped Copp and Skinner positionally. Ended up with 7.2 mil or so in cap space. I traded Boston's 2nd for Nick Leddy who is 1x5.5mil and another LHD to add further veterancy to our back end. So my D was (until McCabe returns) Dahlin - Borgen Leddy - Jokiharju Bryson - Miller When McCabe returns, barring Bryson playing incredible I'd slot McCabe in there and occasionally swap Miller with Bryson based on the opponents. A nice combo of Playoff experience and youngsters.

What's your cap look like?

I’d still be asking for Zegras, there aren’t any 1Cs in this draft, and we lack a prospect of that tier. Couldnt someone just wack Eichel over the head, give him amnesia and tell him he loves it here always forever?

What are they going to sing for us?

Ideally if we have a 2nd Top 10 pick, let’s say #9. Whomever we take, that position goes on a run. For instance if we draft Power, I’d hope to see The other top D to go soon after thus pushing a forward down to us at 9. The opposite if we were to take Beniers. In a sense, the perfect scenario would have us drafting 1 and 7/8/9 because in that case you could theoretically take Beniers, then be practically assured one of the Top 4 Dmen anyway. I really wouldn’t think about a goalie honestly due to their long wait times. If we ended up with 3 in the Top 15, perhaps then I’d think about grabbing the goalie but otherwise I’d stick to skaters in the 1st round.

Alright after running through the group would be that they'd protect Johnsson and Wood barring something behind the scenes. Johnsson had a terrible year with the Devils and Wood scored more but assisted less. However they are the most memorable of the 6. Studenic played 8 games and has mostly been an AHL/Slovak League player. Merkley, McLeod and Bastian are all varying levels of mediocre.

Very true, I do think though that Adams would target Wood for the reasons I listed before

I'd pretty much agree, hence why I think its more or less a smoke screen for him that Buffalo is just playing along with.

As they said, they have a huge hole at RHD and have a good quantity of winger prospects and present players including Tyce Thompson, Mercer, and Foote.

I have a hunch, Risto for Miles Wood and a pick. Wood being a local would give us a high likelihood for the whole "want to be here" idea

Another point I hadn't thought of is that regardless of if we actually think we can get Brind'Amour. Adams is doing his old friend a solid by staying in the mix with Seattle to kind of force Dundon's hand.

Unsure what they could honestly give us.

It would have to I'd presume. I'm guessing GMKA is both interviewing for head coaches and potential associate/assistant coaches. Essentially hedging his bets. Granato hasn't had any other interviews so I'm guessing he'd likely stay on with Buffalo depending on the head coach. If he is the head coach Adams likely wants to grab at least one experienced HC to be an assistant

Nah, not interested; he's a winger

I doubt they will but I'd be furious if Adams was dumb enough to send him there.

Then you don't trade him regardless. The last thing we should do is trade him for a bag of pucks because he wants out.

Here's the finished version https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2469532