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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

Also, he's about to be 27 in a couple weeks, so it's not unusual for a player like him to take a hit statistically at this point. You keep saying these are his prime years, but really the "average" player is past his prime scoring rate at Eberles age, which is often in the early to mid 20 range.

http://www.tsn.ca/pinning-down-a-pla...years-1.388514

http://www.cbc.ca/news/when-nhl-play...rics-1.2646054

VERY selective quote from that second article, considering it says several times that peak age is 28 and players perform within 10% of their peak from ages 24-32.

While I agree that this whole thing is ridiculous and Eberle is just a lower tier first line paid like an upper tier one, suggesting that he's passed his peak as an excuse for his number is ridiculous and wrong. He's just a 50-60 point winger, plain and simple.

(also better than Versteeg and Brouwer, let's stop being stupid)