Asking Price for Jack Eichel

Created by: Club_de_Hockey_le_Canadien

Team: 2019-20 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 18, 2020

Published: Jun. 18, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

I'm not a Sabres fan but I respect them and if I were the Sabres I wouldn't give up Eichel unless it were a massive overpayment. I see him in the same untouchable status as Auston Matthews. Here is my best guess at the Sabres lowest asking price:

Trades

BUF

Top Prospect
1st Line Forward / 1st Pairing D
2020 1st (Top 15)
2021 1st

ANA

Eichel, Jack

Buyouts

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$81,500,000	$67,596,667	$0	$7,107,500	$13,903,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 8		Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 4
Frolík, Michael $4,300,000$4,300,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Johansson, Marcus $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Simmonds, Wayne $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Sobotka, Vladimír $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Girgensons, Zemgus $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Reinhart, Sam $3,650,000$3,650,000 RW UFA - 1
Vesey, Jimmy $2,275,000$2,275,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Larsson, Johan $1,550,000$1,550,000 C, LW UFA - 1
Kahun, Dominik $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Thompson, Tage $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 1
Olofsson, Victor $767,500$767,500 ($132,500$132K) RW, LW UFA - 1	Lazar, Curtis $700,000$700,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
McCabe, Jake $2,850,000$2,850,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Ristolainen, Rasmus $5,400,000$5,400,000 RD UFA - 3	Hutton, Carter $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 2
Hunwick, Matt $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD UFA - 1	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 3	Ullmark, Linus $1,325,000$1,325,000 G UFA - 1
Pilut, Lawrence $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) LD UFA - 1	Montour, Brandon $3,387,500$3,387,500 RD UFA - 1
Dahlin, Rasmus $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) LD/RD UFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) RD RFA - 2

Top Comments

Jun. 18, 2020 at 8:33 p.m.

tkecanuck341

Joined: May 2016

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Edited Jun. 18, 2020 at 8:39 p.m.

Trading for a player like Jack Eichel is a bad idea for any team. The truck-load of assets that a team would have to give up to acquire him would be devastating to a club's future. As Edmonton and Buffalo have both demonstrated over the last 5 years, a single player can't fix your problems. Plus, you're one injury away from destroying your franchise for the better part of a decade. That's too much of a risk to take.

If you can get lucky and win the lottery in a year when there's a generational player available, then hooray for you. That's the only reasonable way to acquire a player like McDavid or Eichel in their prime.

For example, the asking price you put in LA's situation would be:

Alex Turcotte
Anze Kopitar
2020 Top 7 overall pick (one of Lafreniere, Byfield, Stutzle, Raymond, Drysdale, Perfetti, Rossi)
2021 Top 15ish overall pick (who knows what that could be)

That's just insane.

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Jun. 18, 2020 at 8:36 p.m.

Engvall_Enjoyer

Joined: May 2020

Posts: 465

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A decent young 45+ point producing forward + a decent 1st pair defense man + a top 10 1st round pick + a 2021 first pick + a prospect (if froward 2-3 line potential - if defense 1st-2nd pair potential)

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Jun. 18, 2020 at 8:39 p.m.

Sagecoll

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 6,728

Likes: 1,559

Right but that's not really how this goes...

-Eichel's only being traded if he demands a trade
-If he demands a trade, he's going to have 1-3 teams he specifically wants to be traded to
-At that point, Buffalo pretty much has no leverage. Whatever "asking" price there was you can chop off about 25-50%
-Sabres will probably trade him at that point because if you don't
a) Eichel will probably sit out (and it's not like he can't afford to)
b) Eichel will bad-mouth the Pegula's publicly to the point where they'll ship him out just so he can stop.
c) Other players are going to want to go to Buffalo less than they already do (which is pretty low)

It's going to make signing UFA's and signing NCAA players very hard in the future if you put up too much of a fight.

So if your ask is
1) Top Prospect
2) Top Pair/Top Line player
3) Top 15 Draft pick
4) 1st Rounder

What you could reasonably expect is
1) Top Prospect
2) Solid Young Top 6/Top 4 Player
3) A late 1st
4) Either another late 1st/early 2nd or a solid prospect or young player.

And that's basically what Gretzky got minus the cash.

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Jun. 18, 2020 at 8:46 p.m.

BurnEmUp

Yeah Baby