Proposal: Anson Carter: Marner for Rantanen

hamzarocks

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Marner is the more complete player. One of the best Pkers in the league, Selke finalist as a winger, plays all situations and key moments often being the best player on his line.

Keep in mind, we are talking about two of the leagues best superstars here. Neither is bad. We're debating the margins here. I feel Marner impacts other areas of the game more, like a Stone type winger who also is able to put up superstar offensive stats despite playing in defense first systems.
I see no reason to take Marner over rantanen. Rantanen is much better in playoffs, has been higher production player in 22/23 and 23/24 and still is at the moment now. Has played Center for stints and been productive.

You take the big bodied winger who gives ~45G and 60A over the smaller winger who gives ~30G and 70A with the playoffs being in the Rantanens favour

league wide wingers

Tier 1:

Kucherov
Kaprizov
Pastranak
Rantanen

Tier 2:

Tkachuck
Marner
Nylander
Panarin
Reinhart
 

HockeyVirus

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I see no reason to take Marner over rantanen. Rantanen is much better in playoffs, has been higher production player in 22/23 and 23/24 and still is at the moment now. Has played Center for stints and been productive.

You take the big bodied winger who gives ~45G and 60A over the smaller winger who gives ~30G and 70A with the playoffs being in the Rantanens favour

league wide wingers

Tier 1:

Kucherov
Kaprizov
Pastranak
Rantanen

Tier 2:

Tkachuck
Marner
Nylander
Panarin
Reinhart

I mean, look at the difference in systems. Avs are terrible defensively and play a rush game you would expect scoring to be higher.
 

LOFIN

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I mean, look at the difference in systems. Avs are terrible defensively and play a rush game you would expect scoring to be higher.
Based on what metric? The Avs have been one of the better teams defensively for many years now.

Avs also don't play rush game. They can certainly play from the rush, but their offensive zone time is among the highest in the league. Only Carolina has a higher O-zone percentage in fact.
 
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hamzarocks

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I mean, look at the difference in systems. Avs are terrible defensively and play a rush game you would expect scoring to be higher.
Leafs havent been a good defensive system for more than 20 games this year.

We played the same rush/offense heavy system with Keefe for 5 years and marner wasnt outproducing Rantanen then either.

Marner needs to outproduce Rantanen sizably/significant amount to make up for the playoff production gap and he isnt capabpe of doing that.
 

Unbiased Fan

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I’ll take the cup winner over someone who hasn’t seen game 6 of Round 2
Honestly if the Blackhawks offered Bedard for Landeskog if he comes back I’d take that if I’m Colorado I know guys like Landy, Nuke, Towes, etc won the cup but Bedard is a generational talent. People on the site are ridiculous saying ANY player who has won a cup has more value than Bedard or even a guy like Dahlin
 

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