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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Filipovic Forsberg @DimFilipovic
This Eberle thing is all part of a 4-step process. Step 1: Pick a player and scapegoat him, citing his apparent lack of production.
Step 2: Smear campaign. Put dirt on him with speculative stories, hoping to turn fans and ease the process of getting him out of town.
Step 3: Trade him for 50 cents on the dollar, but that's OK because you're turning a negative into positive by doing addition by subtraction
Step 4: When the player succeeds next year, be quick to point out that he needed a fresh start and wouldn't have been able to do that here.
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Honestly Eberle had a ridiculously low shooting % despite pretty god underlying numbers, and the Oilers would be dead stupid to sell him off at his absolute lowest value.
But that's exactly what the Oilers are going to do. The talking heads have already turned on him... it's just like Hall last year.
Dumb team is dumb and is going to do dumb stuff.
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If they want to sign McDavid and Draisail which probably adds close to 14 million to their payroll in the next year as well as replace a guy like Russell or resign him and deal with other resigns they'll probably have to axe about 14 or so million from their payroll.
No teams are going to take Eberle's and RNH's 6 million dollar hits straight across, nor are teams just going to take on guys like Poulliot for example.
So for the Oilers its more then just trading Eberle and RNH, they will probably have to move one or two other big dollar contracts for very little in return.