T-Mac suggested that some of our high end players didn't show up tonight.
Is it possible that they aren't high end players?
Is it possible that possibly that Hopkins and Eberle at this point are incredibly overrated and are past the point of no return.
If you're a GM or fan of any team other than the Oilers how do you view these guys and their contracts?
Every time Hopkins or Eberle score 1 goal or 2 points in a night there are a good dozen people who've obviously had a few too many beers before coming on the computer to say "Oh... what's that you guys saying about Ebs?! Look at dat! LOOK at dat! Now he be on pace for 47 points!"
Being 100% serious here. As each week goes by my standards for an Ebs/Hopkins trade slowly wither away.
Am an idiot for seeing them as plugs at this point?
Eberle is 6 million dollar right winger who averaged 64 points over 2 seasons between 2013-2015. Correct me if I'm remembering things wrong but isn't that when Hopkins, Eberle and Pouliot had chemistry? Or was that Hall-Hopkins-Eberle throughout the majority of those 2 seasons?
Pouliot... 4M dollar player who isn't even a plug anymore. He's a hole in the line-up when in the line-up. I'm guessing it would be incredibly hard to find 5 Oil fans that wouldn't be happy to see him picked up in the expansion draft or traded for future considerations aka NOTHING.
And last we have Hopkins. Former 1st overall, babyfaced smart boy who can't figure out how to provide any offense. In the time that Eberle was averaging 64 points, Hopkins was averaging 56. He's now on pace for 39 points. So he was putting up enough points to be considered a viable 2nd line center but at this point you flat out can't justify putting him in the 2nd line C slot.
How many times have we seen our lines changed this year? It's not out of the coach's stupidity. He keeps giving Eberle the chance to put up points with Mcdavid but it doesn't work and we've always gotta to back to having Drai and McDavid on 1 line, moving Hopkins to #2 C and we end up hoping that the 3rd or 4th line can put up some points because we'll be pretty confident that the 2nd line isn't going to put up any points.
At the beginning of this year I was convinced that we'd see Eberle gone by the start of the 17/18 season and Hopkins by the start of the 18/19 season but I'm now at the point where I see the management feeling some level of desperation to get rid of the both of them before the start of the 17/18 season.
No way we're getting a Larson for either of them.
Is it possible that they aren't high end players?
Is it possible that possibly that Hopkins and Eberle at this point are incredibly overrated and are past the point of no return.
If you're a GM or fan of any team other than the Oilers how do you view these guys and their contracts?
Every time Hopkins or Eberle score 1 goal or 2 points in a night there are a good dozen people who've obviously had a few too many beers before coming on the computer to say "Oh... what's that you guys saying about Ebs?! Look at dat! LOOK at dat! Now he be on pace for 47 points!"
Being 100% serious here. As each week goes by my standards for an Ebs/Hopkins trade slowly wither away.
Am an idiot for seeing them as plugs at this point?
Eberle is 6 million dollar right winger who averaged 64 points over 2 seasons between 2013-2015. Correct me if I'm remembering things wrong but isn't that when Hopkins, Eberle and Pouliot had chemistry? Or was that Hall-Hopkins-Eberle throughout the majority of those 2 seasons?
Pouliot... 4M dollar player who isn't even a plug anymore. He's a hole in the line-up when in the line-up. I'm guessing it would be incredibly hard to find 5 Oil fans that wouldn't be happy to see him picked up in the expansion draft or traded for future considerations aka NOTHING.
And last we have Hopkins. Former 1st overall, babyfaced smart boy who can't figure out how to provide any offense. In the time that Eberle was averaging 64 points, Hopkins was averaging 56. He's now on pace for 39 points. So he was putting up enough points to be considered a viable 2nd line center but at this point you flat out can't justify putting him in the 2nd line C slot.
How many times have we seen our lines changed this year? It's not out of the coach's stupidity. He keeps giving Eberle the chance to put up points with Mcdavid but it doesn't work and we've always gotta to back to having Drai and McDavid on 1 line, moving Hopkins to #2 C and we end up hoping that the 3rd or 4th line can put up some points because we'll be pretty confident that the 2nd line isn't going to put up any points.
At the beginning of this year I was convinced that we'd see Eberle gone by the start of the 17/18 season and Hopkins by the start of the 18/19 season but I'm now at the point where I see the management feeling some level of desperation to get rid of the both of them before the start of the 17/18 season.
No way we're getting a Larson for either of them.
