Wabit
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RNH and Eberle are pretty bad contracts for what they provide... even if they both have their uses.
I'm going to defend Eberle a little. He had a down year scoring wise: his career s% was 14.1% prior to this season (425 games), and he had a 9.6% this year. That is a considerable dropoff. I think he's too young to have found Pommer's cliff and jumped off it. He's good for 20g and 50+ points on a down year. 60+ points future seasons aren't hard to imagine for him. Open market that's a $6mx6 contract as a 29 yo. A scoring 2nd line would be the ideal spot for him.
RNH is still a just turned 24 yo quality 2C. He's a draft year behind the Nino, Granny, Coyle trio that all just had career years or the Wild. He's just expendable with McDavid and Draisaitl also on the team. Koivu (if he had RNH's contract) would be expendable with if they were on the same team as McDavid and Draisaitl also.
Nino and Granlund just entered the same points production tier as RNH/Ebs have been in for years on really bad 1 line Oilers teams.