Filipovic Forsberg @DimFilipovic
This Eberle thing is all part of a 4-step process. Step 1: Pick a player and scapegoat him, citing his apparent lack of production.
Step 2: Smear campaign. Put dirt on him with speculative stories, hoping to turn fans and ease the process of getting him out of town.
Step 3: Trade him for 50 cents on the dollar, but that's OK because you're turning a negative into positive by doing addition by subtraction
Step 4: When the player succeeds next year, be quick to point out that he needed a fresh start and wouldn't have been able to do that here.
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Honestly Eberle had a ridiculously low shooting % despite pretty god underlying numbers, and the Oilers would be dead stupid to sell him off at his absolute lowest value.
But that's exactly what the Oilers are going to do. The talking heads have already turned on him... it's just like Hall last year.
Dumb team is dumb and is going to do dumb stuff.
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