Curt

This is true. I think there are probably a lot of players who end up playing 100-200 games over a 4-5 year period in their mid 20’s who never amount to much and are then replaced and out of the league.

Is anyone doing that though? Surely it’s ok to be hopeful and excited about draft picks. Roughly 50% of all drafted prospects end up playing at least 1 NHL game. Probability that a draft pick will play 100 NHL games. 2nd round - 35% 3rd round - 25% 4th round - 20%

Agree. A lot of it is team success bias too though. What are the odds that all of the 10 best players under 25 play for winning teams?

Hope so. He has had good offensive production at U18 levels. I’d love to see that carry over to the U20 junior league this season.

That article is from 14 months ago. Which actually makes it surprising that Eichel isn’t on it. I wouldn’t expect anyone would have him on it today, or Reinhart for that matter.

That’s 5 seasons ago. I feel like there is a pretty high likelihood that Anderson is a better goalie in 2021-22 than UPL.

Toronto and Buffalo in different divisions? Vancouver and Seattle in different divisions? No thank you.

The NHL is not owned and operated as Gary Bettman sees fit. The NHL is owned by the owners, and they approve league decisions. They employ Bettman. I doubt many owners would be ok with Bettman taking steps to push a star player to a big market.

This will result in more information available to decision makers. In the right hands that should lead to better decisions being made. If it’s in the wrong hands, then they will probably mess things up with or without this additional information. It can’t hurt, so, yeah, it makes me happier.

Sorry, I thought it was clear. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Except that he will be in the AHL making $125k

Eggszachary

Please tell us more.

It wasn’t a great team by any stretch, but you didn’t list many of the best or most featured players from that team. ROR, Kane, good Okposo, Reinhart, Gionta, Ristolainen, Bogosian.

Being healthy would greatly help him get traded. This injury is making it really difficult.

I whole heartedly disagree. If he didn’t need surgery, everyone would say so. It would be in everyone’s best interest. Why do you think that Eichel, his agents, his doctor, and Kevyn Adams are all lying about him needing surgery?? Just because he is doing offseason skates/practices with other NHLers doesn’t mean that he doesn’t need surgery.

Right, I agree on everything you said regarding physicals. Even still, you aren’t going to fool another GM. Sooner or later the information would be there that this guy (who everyone says needs surgery) isn’t healthy. (shocker, I know). But beyond that, it doesn’t make any sense to think that Eichel is healthy right now. If Eichel was healthy right now and didn’t need surgery, don’t you think that he, his agents, and Kevin Adams would all be screaming it from the rooftops? It would make it a heck of a lot easier to trade him, and that seems to be something that everyone wants.

I don’t understand. Do you think that he doesn’t need surgery, and is actually healthy? How will GMs become convinced that he is healthy?

The Minnesota one gives Buffalo a young top-6 winger, a young NHL goalie, and two 1st round picks.

Funny. The article you linked says Kaprizov has a KHL contract agreed to at over $1M, which makes sense. Seravalli’s tweet then says 8 figures, which is at least $10M. Maybe Seravalli can’t count real goodly? KHL salary cap for 2020-21 season was $14.4M.

Sounds like bologna. Players in the KHL don’t make 8 figures, do they?

No one is going to get tricked. Eichel will be taking a physical. The acquiring team will have all the information.

Oh, I didn’t get that. No one said anything about becoming a fan of another team. If I truly got fed up enough, I could maybe follow another team, maybe pick a good team in the west to support and just kind of cool it on the Sabres. I’ve considered it, but I also know it wouldn’t be anything near what I feel for the Sabres, and I wouldn’t really consider it “switching” teams. It would just be that I needed a Sabres break and am trying to enjoy hockey in a different way. So far, when I’ve needed a break, I’ve just watched more basketball. Go Hawks!

I think you (me too I guess) just care about it more than a lot of fans. If someone doesn’t care that much, why would they spend their time on it when the team is bad and it’s not that much fun? They aren’t pretending to not care. They just really don’t care. When it’s good, it’s fun for them and they participate. When it’s bad, it’s not and they don’t bother. They find more enjoyable things to do.

This is silly, and definitely not an idea that anyone actually associated with the business would remotely agree with. It’s an entertainment business. People make choices about how to invest their time and money. “If you don’t like this product when it’s *****, don’t bother supporting it when it’s good.” Can’t get in line with that line of thought.