I was questioning if his wrist was still bothering him when he hurt it before he put in goals 59-60 the year before in the 3rd game of the season, almost everything about his game changed which seemed like the reason was that wrist was not 100%. then later in the season they announced or I swear I recall them doing so and confirmed it.
What an interesting narrative to create. Such a weird thing to ignore a Stanley Cup over.
EIchel has been in the league since 2015/16 and has shown a bad attitude almost every year since. sorry im not blinded by one good season out of 8 and Vegas was stacked Eichel isnt the only reason they won. he was a big part of it but he's hardly the only reason they won.
about as low as it can get when it comes to playoffs but Im not ready to risk losing him. Im weak
The season COVID hit, Eichel was a Hart candidate and probably the favorite up until the very end of that season. He sustained a late season injury and fell off a little at the end of that season, but he was dragging a terrible Buffalo team into playoff contention that season.
oh shit I some how missed that one, lol just 5 more points with the same amount of games so nothing really too crazy but yeah fair enough Buffalo wasnt that great. either way he's still a tier below Matthews for overall players.
Matthews got 5 goals versus Tampa in a series win and no one is "ripping him apart" for that series. Where he's being criticized for is his disappearing act the next round versus Florida where he didn't score a single goal.
"If AM got 4 goals and no assists"
So hypotheticals are no longer allowed unless they have proof? Do you know what hypothetical means?
Matthews had 80pts in 70 games that year and Eichel had 78pts in 68games (1.14ppg vs. 1.15). I think he was suggested that at points during the season Eichel was outperforming him and probably a favourite for the Hart (that part is a bit of a stretch).
out preforming him with 11 less goals and behind by 2 points overall?
I agree....just suggesting what I think his comment was (i.e. at points during the year Eichel may have been top 10 scoring....but by the end of the year he wasn't close to the leaders).
So you'd rather have Eichel than McDavid or Draisaitl. Got it.
This is HFBoards. Of course it does.
Yes. And I would take either of McDrai over “Me First” Matthews because it’s clear McDrai comes to play when it matters. The Edmonton supporting cast is lame. That should be a fixable problem. Too bad for the Oilers they have a has been GM. The problem With the Leafs is when it matters the big contracts are lame and so is the supporting cast. The problem With Leafs management is they run this team in fear of their big contract players. So they do nothing but rearrange the deck chairs around their “leaders” and hope for some reason after 7 years something different might happen.
So youre just gonna double down on not knowing what a hypothetical is, pretend you didn't change the parameters of the hypothetical (you did) and say I have a victim complex to round it all out.
Go read some of the threads back at the time. It was considered him, Draisaitl, Panarin, and MacKinnon as the four favorites. Eichel was doing it with so much less help. He had the best case.
