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I think the Sabres have missed the sell on this. I expect a fairly low return now.

Whilst I agree with the Sabres course of rehab it first. If they now agree he needs surgery, I don't know why they don't go for the artificial disk. It is not experimental, has been done on high-end players (including MMA, which is pretty brutal) and worse comes to worse, if it doesn't work you can always fuse it afterwards.

Distraction from playing in a post-Eichel team. The issue with the tank was how hard we steered into losing. I don’t want that to happen again. I want the team to play to win every night. And instilling tjay culture on a poor team is a hard thing to do. Therefore, I think it will be critical Eichel is not around to disrupt that.

I think it will be a huge distraction for the whole team if he isn't. That's bad when you're trying to reestablish a culture about people who want to be here, and teach them a new system etc.

Their best bet is a contract dump in an Eichel trade

I think Eichel was the wrong person for us to try and build a franchise on. That’s not to say he isn’t talented, or doesn’t work very hard. But I think his response to the whole affair is fairly telling, and not something I want to see from my captain.

Phew - back to normal. Signing a player I have never heard of for league minimum

Good signing - and cheap

He is also (generally) one of the more connected insider sources (but only for the Wild). Like Friedman, I mostly take what he says as true until otherwise proven.

Lol this story is a copy pasta in the hockey community. Eichel didn’t do this

Georgiev has requested a trade from NYR. Maybe they can get him?

So far a pretty lacklustre FA for us. We currently have the second lowest cap hit in the league. However, we have signed 23 players, whereas Ottawa (the lowest), are about 5 mil below and have 5 more players to sign. Also, our goalies - woof!

Correcting a wrong from years ago. Good

So why did this trade take nearly 24 hours to complete? It’s a standard top 10 protected pick… Maybe the league was stepping in begging Buffalo not to make another awful trade involving a reliable two way forward.

Have no talking heads commented on this yet?

If the RFA market is this rubbish, I hope KA starts offer sheeting everyone

This is a weird trade. I have never known such a slow lag between announce and the pieces being confirmed.

Man if Rhino goes for a late first, average goalie who was drafted in the 7th round and a 13th forward we have massively screwed up. He would have got more at the deadline

Jack gone honey bun. And that’s the right move - the earth is too salted for progress now. We aren’t a playoff team next year.

Urgh McCann to Tor. We could have used him

Ah yes you're right!!

Another thing to consider - if Jack gets traded before his NMC starts, the team he is traded to can chose to reject the NMC. This meaning he will have no protection for the reminder of his 5 year contract. Means if the team tjay acquire him don’t like him, they can also trade him with no limits

If Yandle is bought out, and we trade Eichel / Risto. I would be up for signing Yandle as a cheap 6th D man / power play specialist

I think I’ll be disappointed regardless of the trade. I think we will end up trading for volume - getting five players back, all of them young but with low end second line ceilings and a couple of picks