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Originally Posted by comrade
You're joking right? You think that a bunch of kids on their first contracts are all losers that should be traded away?
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Compare Toews and Kane's first 3 years to Eberle's and Hall's.
Toews and Kane were in their 3rd year when they won 2 rounds in the playoffs.
They won the SC the next year.
That is what is supposed to happen when 2 franchise calibre players join the team at the same time.
If Eberle or Hall (currently clearly the best of Edmonton's stars) were anywhere as good as their press clippings there would be no way the Oilers would be drafting top 3 for the year after they started...... never mind 3 consecutive years.
The Oliers have made absolutely no improvement since these guys joined the team.
Their failure is monumental. There is almost no chance that these guys will be the cornerstone of a winning franchise......
YET they are getting paid 6M / year for the next 6 years each almost the identical contracts that Toews and Kane got after their 3rd year.
I am counting on the Flames up-coming first pick to contribute to the Flames winning over the next 3 years than Hall/Eberle have done...... in fact it would be hard to see the Flames being led by Baertschi/Backlund and this years #1 being anywhere as close to as bad as the Hall/Eberle/RNH led oilers.