Quoting: Gofnut999
Every team laughs at those.
Buffalo’s asking price is been to high for teams. And these are higher than their asking price.
Reality check needed.
Monteal maybe, you’d be disappointed. Kotko is a 3rd liner.
I’m more of the mindset that he’s going to be staying in Buffalo for that reasons
Buffalo and Kevyn Adams have been pricing Eichel as healthy and teams want him as damaged. And there’s absolutely no meeting in the middle.
Why? Because any opposing GM who pays for Eichel and gambles and is wrong, is gambling with their job and will be fired if they don’t get anything of Eichel healthy. Some situations like Minnesota or Montreal would probably need to produce a cup to pay those prices.
And Buffalo simply isn’t going to budge on that price, because if Kevyn Adams trades Eichel for less than market value (healthy) which is how he and probably ownership is valuing him, then he will be out of a job rather quickly, and this is an owner with an itchy trigger finger, and he has his replacement Jason Karmanos right behind him now.
The biggest issue of all is his health…. Nobody has seen Eichel’s medical records and personally, he is probably going to miss a third to half of the season.
Having said all that I can’t see any team paying for Jack Eichel, and if they do, they’ll regret it unless they get him for pennies on the dollar.
At this point, I think it’s more likely he get healthy to start next season in Buffalo, proves he’s healthy and raises his value at the deadline, barring some miracle that Buffalo I in a playoff race. Even if his no trade clause kicks in next summer, he still has way more value healthy than injured which is the barrier right now