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The more I hear the more I think keeping Eberle is the best option.
Can I at least get credit for cracking the hints if it is Duclair or Grigorenko?
We have this tendency on here to over-rate certain players based on small sample sizes. Slepyshev and Caggiula are a couple of them--Pitlick another. The first two had a phenomenal playoffs. But prepare to see some of these types of guys turn into pumpkins next year--a childhood reference if it goes over your head... The playoffs are a completely different monster than the regular season. Look at Fernando Pisani as a glaring example.
Caggiula put up 18 points last year, Slepyshev 10. Strome is the same frigging age as both of them and he has a 50 point season under his belt.
Come on, people. Common sense.
Sounds a lot like Duclair to me. Maybe you can do Duclair + 23rd overall and then move the additional 1st for Barrie or Vatanen? I don't know, just spitballing here.
Duclair also had a 20 goal season at age 20. It's hard to say with young forwards. Some of them peak really early and don't really ever get back to the same level.
Why? So we get taken to the woodshed next summer when the cap becomes a thing?
Eberle has four of them and most people on here are willing to kick him to the curb for worse players and cap dumps.
Duclair is LW and shoots left ... do we need that
3 years ago. Then a 28 and then a 30 point season and overall regressingnumbers. This was both of Cagguilas and Slepyshevs rookie season, both showed signing of improvement throughout the seaosn (disregarding playoffs all together)
Strome is on rung 6 of a ladder and stagnate or climbing down, Cagguila/Slepyshev are on runk 3 and climbing
Anyway, 30 point players are incredibly replaceable and nothing special
What? You don't like being right, either?
For what it's worth, if we don't get MDC (or a similar prospect) too, I'll be supremely disappointed. Chiarelli can eat a contract like Halak or Kulemin. There is absolutely no reason not to if it improves our return.
Agreed. Strome gets a 50 point season 3 years ago and people act likes hes a young stud. Eberle scores 51 in one of the worst seasons ever for him, with incredibly poor luck, and people want to send him to the sun. I get the $ difference, but that should put into perspective how much better Eberle is, and how average to poor Strome is
eberle has had 6 of them i wouldnt trade eberle for duclair even if eberle lost an arm.
For me, it's a RHD for Eberle or a younger RW if you know you can sign Williams or someone as a stop gap for our young RWs.
I do fear Chiarelli wants to be a bit of a populist GM and listens to Oil Country a bit too much for my liking. The rumors seem like a bit of a lazy GM (but its stuaffer so who knows)
Id rather hear reports us being in on Kovalchuk or Vatanen or whomever. Versus us resigning Russell, trading Eberle and trading for Strome likely because hes high pick and well known to the masses. Im not against dealing Eberle, just get creative and identify a good player; even if fans dont know much about him
I trust Chiarelli, just think A) He finds the old core so toxic that hes blinded a bit. B) Seems to want to be liked, more than to make a risky move. Who knows what fires he has his irons in, but just from rumors it doesnt seem like many