You honestly dont have a clue bout the Oilers. The Oilers could have went with what we did last year. We could have rolled with Penner, Hemsky, Brule, O'Sullivan, Comrie, Horcoff, Nilsson and Gagner as our core all over again if we wanted. The only player that was given a roster spot on this team was Paajarvi. If Paajarvi played in the AHL it would have helped him a bit but that doesn't matter because he really found his game towards the second half of the season and dominated. Eberle deserved to be in the NHL. Hall and Eberle would have easily made the Leafs this year. It's not that there being given a roster spot, its because they deserve to be in the NHL. Also you talk like we don't 3 other prospects to replace those guys like its no biggie. The Leafs offence outside of Kessel doesn't have enough talent to match up to those three in the near future. I'm not talking about where Canada finished, I'm talking about how Eberle played as an individual and he played fantastic. Also Eberle did win gold then the year after that he won silver. So Eberle puts up a 106 points on a Regina Pats team that has no talent? So he pretty much did everything himself even though all the opposition had to do was shutdown Eberle and they failed to do so. Kadri's numbers aren't even that impressive considering he played for the London Knights who are all about offence. Ever wonder why he sucks defensively? Because the London Knights dont play defence, they're all about offence. Gagner put up a 118 points on the London Knights and Sergei Kostitsyn put up a 131.
your knowledge about the CHL is pathetic. You do realize that the WHL is a much more defensive league then the OHL and I already told you bout how the London Knights are all about offence. Also Eberle got CHL player of the year, did Kadri get it? Dont think so.
Kadri was terrible in the world juniors. Just compare the two over there when they actually played together and you can see that Eberle was much, much better then Kadri. The fact is Eberle has already accomplished much more the Kadri has. Eberle has done everything that Kadri hasn't.