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“I don’t think Jordan Eberle gave you enough or showed you enough to deserve to get another chance.”

This in from Edmonton Oilers insider Drew Remenda, the Sportsnet analyst, who today unloaded on Oilers forward Jordan Eberle in an interview with fellow insider Bob Stauffer on Oilers Now.

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Remenda started off saying that with Eberle’s $6 million per year salary, he’d trade him pronto.

“The one I’d sell would be Jordan Eberle for a couple reasons…. Objectively you look at Jordan Eberle and he just doesn’t do enough for me. He stays on the outside too much.”

And then Remenda dropped the P-bomb, the failure to practice hard enough: “He doesn’t — and Bob you know my thing about practice — if you want to get better you’ve got to work at your game. You’ve got invest in your career. And I don’t see that from Jordan. And maybe it’s because he does it away from the rink during the summer, I don’t know.

“But to me if you want to win in the National Hockey League in the playoffs, you’ve got to play inside. You can’t drive on the outside, delay, turn up and throw the puck away. You’ve got to be able to play out of your comfort zone and I don’t think that’s Jordan’s forte. Maybe it will be and Peter Chiarelli said that guys like me were judging Jordan too harshly, but I think in this situation I would judge Jordan based on what I saw from Jordan in the playoffs.