But that’s going to be a late first, and they’ll want more than 1 player in the deal

Pat brisson isn’t the gm of the Sabres so him changing agents doesn’t change Sabres mishandling of the trade market of him,

Can’t make Sabres accept that deal

I mean lets say they do this right, then next year comes and they need to sign Paquette Perreault Lehk Evans Suzuki Chairot kulak Wideman and romanov with, like 12 million in cap and im not even sure its that much.

The package doesn't get you Eichel. They will want Suzuki

They want the equivalent of 4 firsts. They cant ask for suzuki if were giving them 4 firsts.

Yeah it’s messy forsure. A few of those guys will walk forsure, probably Lehkonen and Chiarot. Suzuki will get his big boy contract (if he plays like last year or better, also thanks to the svechnikov contract) at around 7/8m aav.

The Sabres have no leverage. My point with Brisson being close with Bervegin means that there is a higher chance that Brisson will convince Eichel to come to Montreal.

We don’t know, that depends on how the Habs perform, there is a chance that the picks will be in the 10-20 range. And yeah I wouldn’t mind adding Ylonen and Mysak to that package.

Again his agent isn’t negotiating trades. Sabres will trade him to a team that gives them a package they like, jack doesn’t have to sign off on anything

His agent has 0 barring on what the Sabres decide is an acceptable return for eichel

Montreal has kinda dug themselves a hole with their expensive contracts right now, Weber Price anderson and Gally make up like 30 million in cap. And frankly they are not worth it to get to the playoffs Good in the playoffs (kinda gally and anderson were very meh). and they are signed for forever it feels like.
Like i know alot of people like to **** talk my leafs for their cap structure, but its not the contracts themselves that are bad its how many they signed.

Kotkaniemi had more value for Buffalo than Car 1st and 3rd - the 1st is likely to be somewhere between 28-32 and the 3rd is basically a lottery ticket - Kotkaniemi hasn't been great but he is an NHL player

With Romanov and Suzuki needing new contracts next summer I'd try to stick AT LEAST ONE OF Hoffman and Drouin into that deal - if not both!