Confirmed with Link: [BUF/VGK] Jack Eichel & 3rd-2023(BUF) FOR Peyton Krebs, Alex Tuch, 1st-2022(VGK) & 2nd-2023(VGK)

[Cirris]

It's the best we could get.

While I'm satisfied. I'm also realizing this is similar the ROR trade with the prospect being a much better ranked one.

If Eichel was healthy, he probably would have been untradeable as no team would EVER give up his true worth, much like trading the #1 overall draft pick.

Now to move on.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[KiwiGriff]

The second they said Buffalo is one of the greatest markets in the NHL, I knew they were full of shit

Depends on what you mean. It's well reported that Buffalo fans are biggest general hockey fans. They watch more games not including their own team than any other market. I'm not sure how much that's related to how bad the Sabres have been for a decade though.

 

[1point21Gigawatts]

The second they said Buffalo is one of the greatest markets in the NHL, I knew they were full of shit

It is though. One of the few markets with consistently high viewer ratings for hockey playoffs when the local team hasn't been in for years.

 

[threeVo]

couple snips from athletic article

Team exec No. 1

I get it from both sides.
Buffalo — Needed this saga to end for everyone’s sake and get the most they could. Peyton Krebs is a complete player. Don’t know how high-end he will turn out, but the upside is there and the downside is a good, two-way middle-six forward. Alex Tuch is a guy I have always loved. Big body, only 25, top-six winger, under contract on a cap-friendly deal for four more years. A guy you love on your team, especially in critical games. Injuries are a small concern, but still upside in his game if he can consistently stay healthy. Also, get a first-round pick this year. So, I think they did fine when you consider they had to move a player with that cap hit and an injury nobody knows how he will come back from.
Vegas — It’s the risk and reward here. The reward is they get a first-line center, didn’t have to move any of their core players and now they will have Eichel, William Karlsson and Chandler Stephenson down the middle now and into the future. They also get the best player in the trade and can try and still win it this year with Eichel returning in the playoffs like Nikita Kucherov did last year. However, the risk is they have no cap flexibility at all moving forward, lose a really good young forward in Krebs who is NHL ready now and just getting going, lose a ‘Vegas identity’ player in Tuch for a guy who has four more years left at $10 million a season and nobody knows what kind of player he will be after he gets this surgery.
All in all, Buffalo did what they had to do and Vegas (no pun attended) went all-in on Eichel and him bouncing back. Time will tell how all this works out.
Team exec No. 2

Buffalo did well. Eichel’s a great player and they’re not getting someone back as good as him, but Tuch is a good player on a good contract, Krebs is an excellent prospect, and there’s a lot you can do with the $5 million of cap space they freed up.
People are going to hammer Buffalo for it but nobody offered more because it’s hard to make room to add a $10 million player.

 

[JThorne]

Vegas is counting on this guy to get them far:

Rank 39 Robin Lehner 3.13GAA .906Sv%

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Good trade. Although I was hoping for Strome + conditional 7ths

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Sabre Dance]

 

[LORDE]

You see other Ranger fans? Some of you can be nice people and not trolling on Sabres board. Thank you.

Ehhhh if you ever head over to our board, you'll usually be greeted with respect.

There are some very knowledgable posters there and even some with inside connections... or who were in the business of hockey etc.

When ridic trade proposals are thrown out there... those posters are usually met with a reality check.

But, like everywhere else in this world, there ARE assholes.

I rarely venture onto the main boards... that's where most of the aforementioned seem to congregate

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Very pleased Adams held out for Krebs and zero salary retention on Eichel. Shudder to think what Murray or Botterill would have done in this situation.

Confident for the first time in forever that our GM and coach are actually competent.

 

[Paxon]

Jack is going on ESPN’s The Point too. I don’t think it’s desperate, I think it is normal.

Just about the whole episode is about the trade

 

[dasaybz]

It's the best we could get.

While I'm satisfied. I'm also realizing this is similar the ROR trade with the prospect being a much better ranked one.

If Eichel was healthy, he probably would have been untradeable as no team would EVER give up his true worth, much like trading the #1 overall draft pick.

Now to move on.

What are you talking about? Krebs is a much much better prospect than Tage, and Tuch is a much much better player than both Berglund and Sobotka. Not even close in my opinion.

 

[Paxon]

New look. I can't see his pants, but if he is wearing some Adidas, you better just give that man a cigarette if he asks for one lest you get stabbed.

 

[elchud]

We want our rich sports heroes to be heroic across the spectrum. When they are usually kids in their early 20s.

In January of this year I wanted him off the team, to LA, for a kings ransom. It was clear this needed to end and that the Taylor Hall thing was stupid desperation Pegula bucks garbage, more of the decade long buffoonery.

The Eichel trade return is not what we wanted. But its the return we deserved.

 

[Jim Bob]

Emergipod!!!

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Ehhhh if you ever head over to our board, you'll usually be greeted with respect.

There are some very knowledgable posters there and even some with inside connections... or who were in the business of hockey etc.

When ridic trade proposals are thrown out there... those posters are usually met with a reality check.

But, like everywhere else in this world, there ARE assholes.

I rarely venture onto the main boards... that's where most of the aforementioned seem to congregate

Some games other teams GDT are fun to venture in to. I’ve found they don’t care as long as you’re not being a douchecanoe. Plus they sometimes enjoy getting an opposite perspective of the same thing they’re watching

 

[WeDislikeEich]

That means no

He made it clear he asked to be traded before the 2020 season in the Friedman interview.

 

[CrazyPsycho]

I'm sure Jack is super excited to have Lehner as his goalie again

 

[sabremike]

After that interview he should be booed at Pajama Boy level everytime he steps onto the ice at KBC for the remainder of his career. The thing that hurts the most is that every single thing people said about his character and how he was a spoiled petulant brat that I defended him against ended up 100% true.

 

[old kummelweck]

After that interview he should be booed at Pajama Boy level everytime he steps onto the ice at KBC for the remainder of his career. The thing that hurts the most is that every single thing people said about his character and how he was a spoiled petulant brat that I defended him against ended up 100% true.

I always gave him the benefit of the doubt, but admittedly, I bit my tongue when he behaved like that and made excuses because he was elite. Sabres are to blame for a lot of it, and maybe it was the way they enabled him. We all heard he wanted out prior to last season, and Adams basically retooled the team to appease him to try and get him to stay. Didn't work out.

 

[old kummelweck]

couple snips from athletic article

Team exec No. 1

now they will have Eichel, William Karlsson and Chandler Stephenson down the middle now and into the future.

Fresh off the press, William Karlsson has lost his love of the game.

 

[OkimLom]

He made it clear he asked to be traded before the 2020 season in the Friedman interview.

IF the Sabres were going for a rebuild.

 

[Bobby Bottle Service]

One thing I'd like to know... where did Weekes get that Calgary rumour? Seems like that was what pushed Vegas to finalize the deal.

 

[Chainshot]

I fully expect Eichel to tear it up for Vegas if he returns to full health & have no bad feelings towards them if that happens.

I expect someone with his physical gifts and abilities to be very productive just about anywhere. That doesn't change how some perceived him in and around the team.