TerminatorBlue
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You forgot option 3: do nothing and keep waiting. There's 0 chance Eichel wins that grievance. That's why he's only filing it now instead of ~6 months ago when he first could have. The Sabres haven't violated the CBA, he's got no wrong-doing to point to.
That's my point though, they have been doing option 3 and it hasn't been working. This grievance only puts more pressure on them and it makes things worse even if the grievance gets shot down.