Skimming through your post history you wanted to trade Nuge for Boone Jenner and said that would be a "big win" for us.
Also said Strome was Eberle's equal offensively.
Got a feeling you'll be wrong about Klefbom in a years time as well.
Well my RNH for Jenner trade suggestion was a year ago as well.
RNH did much better this past season which equalizes those players moreso now.
Looking at the past 3 seasons:
Relative to teammates:
RNH + .04 GF/60 + .06 GA/60 with +.89 Rel Zone starts... basically treads water at best (actually a slight net negative considering his zone starts)
Jenner +.05 GF/60 +.04 GA/60 with -9.03 Rel Zone starts... a net positive considering his zone starts.
So nope... I still feel Jenner would be a solid net addition over RNH. Maybe with another solid year from RNH we might finally see him take the lead but as of now it's closer but I still would give the slight nod to Jenner.
As for Strome vs Eberle... Eberle is a soft, invisible playoff player that wasn't the reason the Oilers made the playoffs (but yes he helped) and he certainly wasn't the reason the Isles made the playoffs either (as they missed).
Strome has been somewhat disappointing to me as I expected 40-45 pts from him and if he had delivered that at half the cost of Eberle I would have been happy with that.
No doubt Eberle is better than Strome overall offensively... although I would also say he's worse than Strome defensively given his somewhat softer zone start usage as well.
Fact is that Eberle had a good year and Strome had a mediocre one.
Eberle was the #5 scoring forward on his team last season... scored on 22.3% of his team's goals.
Strome was the #4 scoring forward on his team last season... scored on 14.5 % of his team's goals.
Yep... Eberle was clearly better offensively last season... and both players are complimentary talents that likely don't move the needle strongly towards playoffs for either team even if the trade didn't take place.
Reversing the trade... I think Strome would likely have hit close to 40 pts playing with the Islanders and Eberle would likely have been closer to 50 pts again playing with the Oilers. I don't think that's worth $3 million difference in salaries... especially since we've seen the Casper impression from Eberle when the games mattered the most.
As for Klefbom... I stand by the fact he's bad defensively. My eyes saw that this past season as well to back that up. Stats say so as well when you look at relative GA over the past 3 seasons. He needs to find his offense again to not make himself a net negative out there on the ice which he certainly was this past season.