Confirmed Trade: [BUF/VGK] Jack Eichel, c.'23 3rd for Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs, c.'22 1st (Top10 protected), c.'23 2nd

[Ishad]

People look at the situation and think Buffalo should have gotten more?

I’m impressed they got what they did. Fair value for making someone else assume the injury risk.

 

[Dr Quincy]

Stay obsessed. Buffalo got 3 out of the 4 requested 1st round assets they wanted from the start.

Glad you are happy with the return.

I know I am.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Impressive trade.

Really wish now that other teams simply wouldn't trade with Vegas to force them over the cap when Eichel returns.

Someone has got to make them pay

I can see Vegas moving Reilly Smith. UFA. $5m cap. Trade him & a 2nd to some team with cap. They retain and trade him somewhere else.

 

[bobholly39]

Would be pretty hilarious if Vegas flips him over to Calgary for their rumored offer from yesterday now.

 

[Random schmoe]

Underwhelming return.

Tuch is a solid top 6 winger, maybe a TJ Oshie type, signed to a fair long term deal. Krebs, juries still out but likely a first line center and possibly a star, and the 1st will be in the back half of the round.

 

[Melkor]

Buffalo should have gotten way more. I think there's a risk but people forget that Eichel has still the potential to be a franchise player.

He's basically a franchise player. He had already become one, he's just injured at the moment, that is all.

Buffalo is too dysfunctional to judge a player from his stint there. ROR had been hated for quite some time by their fans, openly said he was unhappy there and as a cherry on top ran through tim hortons lol, quite possibly being too emotionally unstable at that moment.

He needs a fresh start, it's life, that stuff happens.

 

[powerstuck]

Or he just pulls a Kucherov

I thought that his surgery will keep him away from action for a full year. If so, Vegas have plenty of time to make moves.

 

[Dubi Doo]

As a Sabres fan pretty happy with the return.

Tuch and Krebs are nice pieces to add to the young core we're building + 3 1st round picks in a deep draft. Just have to develop the young players. The skill is there for sure, and I like Granato a lot. Im optimistic.

 

[Master P]

Finally.

Feel bad for Tuch though. Vegas to Buffalo. Major oof.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Theodore will be upset today. Him and Tuch EXTREMELY close... their girlfriends grew up together in Vancouver too.

 

[Jag68Sid87]

This is a pretty solid deal for both clubs, imo. Buffalo's return could have been much, much worse than this. Plus, this sneaky team suddenly gets Krebs into their lineup and Tuch will join them later on. Adding those two forwards to what they are already doing looks quite interesting.

Vegas needs to tread water for a while but eventually, they will be legitimate contenders again. They just have to get there first.

 

[River Meadow]

I can’t believe (insert GMs name) couldn’t have put a better package together…

 

[pld459666]

Healthy Eichel, return is unremarkable. Not terrible, but not great.

Current Eichel, return is better than I expected it to be.

Adams did well here.

 

[Spilot23]

Tuch is waking up this morning in tears

Poor guy

Should've done what Karlsson did

 

[AvsCOL]

Finally.

Feel bad for Tuch though. Vegas to Buffalo. Major oof.

Must be terrifying playing in Vegas. Doesn’t matter how well you play, you could be shipped out tomorrow for the shiny new toy.

 

[markpenske]

Has Drury called Vegas yet to offer Hugo Ollas and a 5th?

and don't forget Crapsock

 

[Laus723]

Might be a great trade, no one knows how Eichel will play coming back. Pretty gamble, considering that, they didn’t pay as much as Buffalo supposedly wanted.

 

[Asymmetric Solution]

Poor Alex tuch. From Las Vegas to.... Buffalo

He’s from Buffalo turbo.

 

[GM Armchair]

What an underwhelming return hahaha

 

[Tob]

This is a pretty solid deal for both clubs, imo. Buffalo's return could have been much, much worse than this. Plus, this sneaky team suddenly gets Krebs into their lineup and Tuch will join them later on. Adding those two forwards to what they are already doing looks quite interesting.

Vegas needs to tread water for a while but eventually, they will be legitimate contenders again. They just have to get there first.

For argument's sake, what is much much worse than this deal if we're dealing with Vegas as the trade partner still? Krebs+Tuch? 1st+Tuch, Krebs+1st? I don't think it could have been much worse.

 

[iginlafan77]

I thought that his surgery will keep him away from action for a full year. If so, Vegas have plenty of time to make moves.

I've seen varying timelines, but there do seem to be quite a lot of people thinking that he's potentially back in the season, maybe even for the olympics

 

[Dynamite Time]

My god it’s finally happened!

 

[Laus723]

Must be terrifying playing in Vegas. Doesn’t matter how well you play, you could be shipped out tomorrow for the shiny new toy.

yep. Went from a band of loveable misfits to chasing the biggest names.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Remember when Buffalo fans wanted
Zegras + comtois + 1st(3rd overall) + dostal/lacombe/thrun


Idk tuch late 1st krebs and a swap of 3rds seems pretty meh

 

[EichHart]

Unprotected 1st is pretty huge in this draft. We have 3 1st in a deep draft. I was a big krebs fan his draft year too and tuch has been great in the playoffs and he’s a local kid.