this is something I'd do in NHL 21

The year is 2023. I traded Hischier, a 2nd, and Bahl for Petterson and a 2. What a world.

retention is a non starter

No thanks

I wouldn't trade sheifele for Eichel straight up if I was Winnipeg. He's a Premier center who likes being in Winnipeg on an amazing contract. Not saying Eichel isn't great but I'd rather have sheifele.

That’s a huge overpay. I’ll take scheifele and Perfetti over just Eichel any day. Not to mention you put Heinola in there too.

Scheifele + for Eichel would certainly be an interesting offer worth considering for the Sabres imo

The only problem would be:
-how do they make the Sabres competitive with 27yr old Scheifele, when they couldn’t do that with 24yr old Eichel???

I mean Yeah Scheifele is 3 years older, but he is on a better contract and he isn't that much worse and there could be an argument that he isn't even worse if you go back and look at the track records for the two players. So I wouldn't do a trade like that.