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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
IMO you don't because wing is the least important position. Eberle is an example for me. Puts up good numbers, gets his 6 million and now can the Oilers trade him for what they need, a young top 3 defenceman? Nope, defencemen are way more valuable than an averaged sized soft goal scoring winger. So Eberle may be really hard to trade and is now eating up a large percentage of EDM's cap.
Phil Kessel is one of the top goal scoring wingers in the league, made 8 million and had be dumped with salary retained to get him off the cap. They got an okay return but not as much as you'd get if he was a franchise centre of top 3 dman. Again average size elite goal scoring winger and he wasn't the solution in TOR.
It's just my hockey philosophy that goal scoring wingers are one of the least valuable assets of the elite assets and often end up giving you cap problems.
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Eberle? Kessel?
this is where i think you are subtly adjusting your argument to suit you narrative.... Eberle's contract sucked off the hop and is a case of Oilers Oilering... Kessel was a malcontent who cashed in early in his career.
How much do you think Johnny Hockey would fetch on the open market? or Drouin? or Kucherov?
The draft is a crapshoot, even for big players and defensemen, there is no guarantee they make it either.
You can make the argument that wingers are the most over rated player group when you cherry pick wingers that are over rated... Your argument does not hold much water when you actually substitute wingers that have similar value to #2 DMen...
Is a franchise DMan more valuable than franchise winger? I can see arguments both ways... but the discussion starts when you at least make an attempt for an apples to apples discussion.