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[usiel]

First..err...second?

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

 

[g00n]

lol

"We are not obsessed with Tom Wilson. Honest."

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

The Rangers are a joke. I hope we make the playoffs and play them in round 1.

 

[Calicaps]

The Rangers are a joke. I hope we make the playoffs and play them in round 1.

Will they have anyone left who knows how to play hockey?

 

[trick9]

Rangers did a great job tearing down their potential contender team to counter Wilson.

His contract is up after next season. 6-year extension on the table already?

 

[twabby]

Jack...come to Butt-Head

 

[tenken00]

Sabres: we do need to move Eichel, but we are not letting Jack go without a king's ransom.

Eichel: f*** your ransom

 

[Hivemind]

The Sabres blocking surgery to try and up Eichel's trade value is some true scumbag shit.

 

[Calicaps]

Jack...come to Butt-Head

You know what, f*** that. His health is at stake. Get the surgery and make the Sabres punish him for it in front of the whole world.

 

[Gurglesons]

I feel like you guys are a dark horse to get Eichel.

Kuznetsov, McMichael, 1st. I dunno.

 

[Hivemind]

I feel like you guys are a dark horse to get Eichel.

Kuznetsov, McMichael, 1st. I dunno.

Kuzy has a partial NTC. No way does he waive it to go to Buffalo. The only way it would have happened is if we moved John Carlson for enough trade chips to make a play at Eichel, but that’s not happening at this point.

 

[Anahome]

I see Eichel as a bigger problem than Kuzy. It doesn't make sense to pay extra assets for a player with healthy problems (neck). He definitely will miss first months, and his health after recovery is a question mark.

 

[JustAnotherHockeyFan]

Eichel is somehow a worse all around player than Kuznetsov even before rearranging his neck 8 ways from Sunday.

That said, IF he was healthy, having him as a right shot feeding Ovechkin would probably be the best development to speed up the chase for 895

 

[Melkor]

I see Eichel as a bigger problem than Kuzy. It doesn't make sense to pay extra assets for a player with healthy problems (neck). He definitely will miss first months, and his health after recovery is a question mark.

The issue is not that his injury is hard to recover from. He would've probably been ready for the opening night had they traded him earlier and new team would've obliged to his demand to treat the injury his own way. But they f***ed him over with both trade and surgery and now he's kinda in limbo.

If there's a chance Caps can get him for a package centered around 92 they should push for it.

 

[pman25]

I’ve been saying, ship Kuznetsov out west for a 1st rounder

Two 1sts, McMichael, Schultz for Eichel. Send over the paperwork, don’t care about the neck. Eichel driving a line with Ovie would get him 1,000 goals

McMichael/Cozens had good chemistry at WJC so we can sell Buffalo on that angle. I know they want four 1st rounders but they gotta settle for 3 since Eichel wants out now.

 

[trick9]

I feel like you guys are a dark horse to get Eichel.

Kuznetsov, McMichael, 1st. I dunno.

I wish.

Would gladly a lot to that package to get him... Like Orlov and another top prospect or someone to offset the salaries that the Sabres want.

I just don't see it. We don't have the assets.

 

[g00n]

No, Tom Wilson hasn't actually broken the Rangers

Streisand Effect in full view, NYR.

 

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

Eichel return was always going to be pennies on the dollar, Sabres doing their best to make it fractions if pennies on the dollar.

3 blue chip prospects plus two firsts, just take that and move on

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

I feel like you guys are a dark horse to get Eichel.

Kuznetsov, McMichael, 1st. I dunno.

I’ve had this hope as well but given Kuzy’s modified NTC I don’t see it happening. Why would he waive to go from living in an amazing city playing for a competitive team to a dumpster fire in upstate New York? Buffalo is a nice place but if you like the amenities of a city it won’t have any appeal. And they are going to be worse next year somehow then they’ve been the past few years. I just don’t see it.

I also thought a Monahan swap made sense but again… Calgary?

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Eichel return was always going to be pennies on the dollar, Sabres doing their best to make it fractions if pennies on the dollar.

3 blue chip prospects plus two firsts, just take that and move on

5 blue chip assets is not pennies on the dollar?

 

[twabby]

Buffalo is kind of screwed here. With Eichel's health being a question mark and with teams filling out their rosters it seems like his value would be much lower now than before free agency started, when they should have resolved this.

However, Eichel's NMC kicks in next offseason so he'll then have his choice of teams he's willing to go to, which will depress any return Eichel is likely to get. Similar to how Taylor Hall was only able to fetch a mediocre return last year because he only wanted to be traded to Boston.

If a team is confident in his health after surgery, now is a perfect buy-low opportunity IMO. I don't see any way he gets close to the return Buffalo is looking for.

*looks at GMBM*

 

[txpd]

I feel like you guys are a dark horse to get Eichel.

Kuznetsov, McMichael, 1st. I dunno.

very dark. very very VERY dark

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

What a mess in Buffalo. Eichel and his camp don’t look blameless here with the scorched earth approach but the Buffalo front office looks incompetent having it let it get this far when it’s been clear a divorce is the only possible outcome workable for both parties.

And whoever is getting Jack is taking a huge gamble. This isn’t a sprained wrist or a knee scope — they’re talking about a neck surgery that’s never been performed on an NHL player (according to the Sabres GM). There’s no guarantee he comes back as the player he was (or can develop into) and if he doesn’t you probably set your franchise back for many years if not a decade due to the assets forfeited to get Eichel and the contract with a $10M cap hit for five more years and the NMC for four years starting next year that you’re acquiring. Yikes all around.