Aceboogie
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I may have missed exactly what he said, because I was driving, but Bob dropped a long winded series of hints of the player who might be returned for Eberle. Here are the pieces I heard:
- The guy will be protected from the expansion draft
- The guy is cheaper than Eberle
- The guy has been on a few teams
- The guy is coming off a down year
- The guy has good offensive potential
- (This one I think I misheard) The guy has achieved good numbers at some point
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but that's about what I got from his clues.
Seems weird. By protected do you mean exempt or is good enough for us to use a spot to protect. Little chance an exempt player can be young enough to be on different teams AND have a good season in past, as well as being exempt from draft
But Duclair seems like a really good pick. He meets most of the criteria. Plus I said before I expect Chyka to make a run at Eberle. Eberle is an analytics supporters dream. Getting a proven 20-25 goal scorer on a really unlucky down year, but one who has good to great possession numbers. Id avoid trading with Chyka because he has the potential to really benefit from other GMs weaknesses. Hopefully Chiarelli is not falling into his trap. Luring GMs with young players, then targeting older vets on bad years. receipt for disaster IMO