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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
It is still far too much to give a guy on a second contract to a guy who had one good season on a last place team. Even local media think Eberle is really a 25 goal and 65 point guy.
I would argue that the three contracts given to Hall, Eberle, RNH prove how thoughtless the Oilers are.
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6 million for a 65 point player is pretty fair. Unfortunately in today's NHL a lot of players are hitting big pay days on their 2nd contract. There are a lot of things that play a factor in that. In the Oilers case I think they were betting the players would improve and be good value in the later stages of the deals. For Hall your already getting good value. He would probably be an 8 million dollar player if he signed today. With Eberle your getting about even value. Hopkins your probably not getting value because of the injuries. If these guys improve though like you would expect of a young players, 6 million could look pretty good in a couple years. They got enough term on the deals where I don't really see them as being bad deals. i think what hurt them was Hall and Eberle both got pretty fair deals so they probably felt a bit obligated to give RNH the same deal even though he probably should have been a bit less.