Quoting: GoodIdeaAtTheTime
The easiest way to look at the Eichel deal: Buffalo would likely find more value in just getting 2OA and the 2nd than taking on a ton of mostly useless cap. Drouin and Holtby just aren't valuable at their cap hits (and Holtby is a blatant cap dump).
So the proposal arguably boils down to less than 2OA and a 2nd. Sabres are more likely to trade Eichel 1 for 1 for Turcotte or Zegras than do this. It's, in a word, terrible.
Easy solution is to keep Drouin
You see it that way , i dont think Seattle does especially given they got him for nothing
For them its a gamble worth taking but i get your point.
I took the above posters idea of Bean,Lauzon , Appleton , 2nd OA but had to leave Holtby in play for the cap to work.
He's over paid as a back up 100% but he's still not bad enough to buy out or bury given its 1 year left.
Outside Ullmark there's no real better goalies you skated last year with that much better numbers.
Ullmark , UPL and Holtby isnt worse then what they got going on
If anything its slightly better as it offers a Mentor who's won a Vezina and Stanley Cup for a season
It is a Cap Dump but its not like BUF is panicking on how to get rid of him
Better Return and a small 1 year cap dump doesnt seem like the end of the world if im BUF.
Could deffinately sell some Holtby Jersey's like MTL did Perry jersey's last year if you're lucky.