I doubt Terry and Kim are going to be fine paying him 10M a year to not play.
Or how monumentally stupid it would be to:
1. Get nothing from Eichel
2. Watch your young players get disillusioned by the poor treatment of Eichel
3. Watch free agent refuse to sign
4. Give rise to possible locker room issues.
5. Challenge your team's ability to rebuild through the best years of your new young stars
6. Give rise to fan disillusionment
7. Lose 10's of millions of dollars.
And what do your get out of all this? The off chance someone gets desperate and a 2nd rounder in their offer becomes a 1st rounder?
Man, no wonder the sabres suck. They are run by idiots.