After McDavid, Who's the Best Peak Player of the Current Generation?

[DitchMarner]

I think it's between MacKinnon and Kucherov, but Matthews does have a 69 goal season and Makar and Draisaitl may deserve some consideration.

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[Three On Zero]

69 goals is hard to beat.

Matthews
MacKinnon
Kucherov
Makar

You can make an argument for those 4 in any order

 

[Sky04]

69 goal Matthews is nowhere near Mackinnon and Kucherov level lmao dude only had 107 points, kinda pathetic?

McDavid

Mackinnon/Kucherov

Draisaitl



Matthews

 

[Stealth1616]

Pretty easily Kucherov and Mac. Drai is in that conversation too but just a tad below

 

[authentic]

Have to go with MacKinnon here

Curious who Coffee thinks is the best?

 

[centipede2233]

Why is MacKinnon ahead of drasaitl,

MacKinnon 50+ goal seasons - 1
MacKinnon 100+ pt seasons - 2

Drasaitl 50 goal seasons - 3
Drasaitl 100 pt seasons - 5

 

[rypper]

Quinn Hughes.

 

[NVious]

Drai/Mack/Kuch/Makar in a tie due to their playoff performances.

Matthews might honestly be near McDavid's talent, but his playoff performances are atrocious relative to the rest of the group.

Honestly you can't go wrong with any of them, but since we're living in a cap era I'm not sure many teams would get rid of guys even if they could get Matthews considering how bad he has been in the playoffs.

 

[McFlash97]

69 goals is hard to beat.

Matthews
MacKinnon
Kucherov
Makar

You can make an argument for those 4 in any order

Lol where's Draisaitl. We all know you love the Oilers

Draisaitl easy. His peak regular season is on par with the Others and smokes Matthews,and his playoffs is better than all of them except peak 97s 43 point performance.

 

[Three On Zero]

Lol where's Draisaitl. We all know you love the Oilers

Draisaitl easy. His peak regular season is on par with the Others and smokes Matthews,and his playoffs is better than all of them except peak 97s 43 point performance.

Riveting story

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Lol where's Draisaitl. We all know you love the Oilers

Draisaitl easy. His peak regular season is on par with the Others and smokes Matthews,and his playoffs is better than all of them except peak 97s 43 point performance.

42 points* take it easy squirt.... he whoo he whoo breathe.

 

[Regal]

Why is MacKinnon ahead of drasaitl,

MacKinnon 50+ goal seasons - 1
MacKinnon 100+ pt seasons - 2

Drasaitl 50 goal seasons - 3
Drasaitl 100 pt seasons - 5

MacKinnon 140 point seasons: 1

Draisaitl 140 point seasons: 0

 

[centipede2233]

MacKinnon 140 point seasons: 1

Draisaitl 140 point seasons: 0

I guess with that logic, you have mackinnon ahead of Crosby?

 

[TheLegend27]

I guess with that logic, you have mackinnon ahead of Crosby?

It’s an interesting discussion in terms of single season peak play. Mackinnons 2023-2024 probably tops any of Crosby’s best seasons depending how you look at it. In terms of career, longevity and consistency it’s Crosby obviously.

In terms of Drai vs Mackinnon, Drai has been better in most years, but Mackinnon’s lack of 50 goal and 100 point seasons is because he’d miss multiple games a season that prevented him from achieving those numbers.

 

[Video Nasty]

MacKinnon 140 point seasons: 1

Draisaitl 140 point seasons: 0

Art Rosses;

Draisaitl 1

MacKinnon 0

 

[Regal]

Art Rosses;

Draisaitl 1

MacKinnon 0

Exactly. Just as in centipede’s examples, we can see that only focusing on small criteria can lead us to inaccurate conclusions.

I guess with that logic, you have mackinnon ahead of Crosby?

I wasn’t using it as an argument, I was showing the flaw in yours. You used very basic criteria to try to suggest that MacKinnon doesn’t have a case so I did the same. MacKinnon’s year last year was clearly better than any of Draisaitl’s, and he has the slightly better points per game over the last 6 years, including Drasaitl’s 19-20 Art Ross, so it’s not like we’re talking about an outlier season. Crosby is irrelevant.

I’m not even saying MacKinnon is the answer just that he clearly has a case to be above Draisaitl.

 

[Video Nasty]

It’s Kucherov.

 

[Regal]

It’s an interesting discussion in terms of single season peak play. Mackinnons 2023-2024 probably tops any of Crosby’s best seasons depending how you look at it. In terms of career, longevity and consistency it’s Crosby obviously.

In terms of Drai vs Mackinnon, Drai has been better in most years, but Mackinnon’s lack of 50 goal and 100 point seasons is because he’d miss multiple games a season that prevented him from achieving those numbers.

I wouldn’t even say that’s true. He’s been healthier most years, but their points per game are near equal since Draisaitl’s first 100 point season (1.44 to 1.43 for MacKinnon), and even in Draisaitl’s best year MacKinnon was a close runner up in Hart voting. Most years they’ve been pretty similar.