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Trade Analysis: Avs Get Pretty Good Veteran Center In Lars Eller

Avs give up 2025 second-round pick for Caps veteran

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Mar 01, 2023
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News: Avalanche acquire 33-year-old center Lars Eller from the Washington Capitals for a second-round draft pick in 2025.

Views: We’ll see if this qualifies as Chris MacFarland’s biggest move when it comes to addressing his center depth for the postseason. It could be that Eller is the new fourth-line center and another 2C acquisition awaits. Or, it could mean that J.T. Compher has won the 2C job moving forward and that Eller is more of a third-line center kind of guy.

We still have two long days to wait before the NHL trade deadline is over.

ELLER ANALYSIS

I like the acquisition, primarily because:

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