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Originally Posted by waner
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.
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Pretty much^ if there's a player on that team that represents what's wrong with the Oilers, more Eberle than Hall. More Schultz than Perron. They don't care though (MacT, the rest of the org). They have invested in these guys, played favourites before they proved they were worth it, and refuse to budge.