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Originally Posted by Yamer
Out of the guys they would be willing to trade, probably Eberle.
I'm a little surprised how much his value, on this board at least, seems to have dropped. I don't exactly have a ton of knowledge on the player, but he always struck me as that solid regular season forward that would prove his true merit in the playoffs. Of course, playing in Edmonton we will probably never see that latter quality.
Right winger, good for a minimum of 25 goals and 60 points consistently when he's healthy. And I really think there's the heart of a competitor there.
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To me he is the laziest of all the forwards and shows zero sense of caring at all about the losing. He is soft as butter, has the double dose of not caring or understanding how to play defense and outside of one year with a crazy shooting percentage he has been an okay not great offensive player.
In junior despite being surrounded by other good players he had little to no success in terms of even making the play-offs, let alone playing in them so I imagine his show up in play-offs has to with him scoring a goal in which 3 other guys did a hell of a lot more to get him the tap in for Team Canada as the basis for you thinking he would do well in the play-offs? Because he has shown in the NHL when the physicality and defensive play is increased he has no problem taking games off.
Hall does everything better than him. Much better scorerer, better effort on defense, plays a physical game, gives a damn, has a history in junior of being great in the play-offs and winning.
The only reason I can think of wanting Eberle over Hall is if you think you can get him for cheap or that Edmonton wouldn't give up Hall because in terms of hockey play Hall is vastly superior.