Yeah, I don't believe at all the Kane trade landed Eichel, and it didn't become a theory until recently
- sbroads24

That's not true at all
Ppl were saying that we could make that type of trade bc we were tanking

"The conventional wisdom is if Cheveldayoff could have waited until the summer, he could have made his best deal because more teams would be involved. Contending teams couldn't afford to give up assets for a player who can't help them now.
But that wasn't an issue for the rebuilding Sabres, who have an NHL-low 35 points. Fans are counting on them drafting Connor McDavid or Jack Eichel, considered generational prospects."
https://www.google.com/am...today.com/story/23230071/

"Loser: Other Teams in the Connor McDavid Race
With Evander Kane done for the year, what the Sabres just did in terms of immediate NHL players was deal Drew Stafford and Tyler Myers for Zach Bogosian. The Bogosian/Myers side of the exchange is a tough one to characterize because they're both big, right-shooting defencemen who were taken early in the 2008 draft, but they're reasonably comparable in a lot of ways.
That means the Sabres are down one of their better forwards with no replacement in sight, which makes them worse for the immediate future."
https://www.google.com/am...for-evander-kane.amp.html

WE shipped out Stafford & Myers, who both played very well for Winnipeg if memory serves... having them > Bogosian
So yeah, it's reasonable to assume we'd have gotten 2-3 more points
And not finished last
http://www.hockey-referen...s/NHL_2015_standings.html