These Friedman/Dreger-isms are hilarious.
It heats up and then cools
It's quiet, which means something is about to happen
Everything could change with one phone call
Meanwhile a better explanation of the timeline is that
if there's a deadline for Buffalo, it sounds like Eichel's camp wants it done by this weekend before they file a grievance with the NHLPA. Just as important, 50k of Eichel's remaining cap hit ticks off every day. That's a lot, especially for Vegas. By Mon/Tues he'll be at a 9M remaining cap hit on the season.
Interestingly enough, with Patches on LTIR Vegas is close to 9M available if they send the 3 kids down to the AHL. You would think Buffalo would LTIR him before trading him, but maybe they can't until he gets his surgery.
Having said all that, if cap was such a concern, they would have waited to sign Hutton.
Brian Blessing made an interesting point: Vegas sometimes waits for long road trips to make big changes (firing Gallant).
but the funniest thing to take away from all of this is that eichel is German slang for dickhead.
(or acorn. Use your imagination)