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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Pretty ridiculous statement at the end there. Eberle has zero defensive game. Nice how you use a 4 year sample size and toss Monahan in there so his 34pt rookie season skews the numbers.
Eberle is paid to be an elite top line talent and he is a middling second line forward. He might score 10-20pts more than Frolik but brings zero on the PK and makes $1.7M more. Frolik got those dollars as a 27 year old UFA and Eberle gets his deal out of his ELC.
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I'm not even an Eberle fan but to say he's "paid to be an elite top line talent" is gross hyperbole.
He has the 36th highest cap hit among forwards. Elite top line talents like Kane, Kopitar, Ovechkin, Malkin, Crosby, Stamkos, Getzlaf, etc all have cap hits north of 8 million.
Comparables for Eberle salary wise are Plekanec, Backes, Saad, Duchene, Staal, Forsberg, Eriksson, Okposo, Zetterberg. Essentially fringe first liners/ second line players.