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Brady Tkachuk Or Aliaksei Protas?

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Who will have the better 2025 season?

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DitchMarner

DitchMarner

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Who will have the better 2025 season?

Their stats are almost identical, but Protas gets no PP time...


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Surprising comparison.

You gotta give the edge to Protas so far - which is something nobody would have predicted. Major break out season for him. He's a puck hounding line fixer with a decent shot, decent playmaking, and good physicality along the boards. He also has a huge wingspan which enables him to steal pucks when guys think he's out of range.

Protas is also penalty killing 1:37 per game whereas Tkachuk does not PK.

This is also year 1 of a 5-year $3.4M AAV contract for Protas, which means if he keeps this up this is going to be one of the very best contracts in the NHL.
 
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DitchMarner said:
Who will have the better 2025 season?

Their stats are almost identical, but Protas gets no PP time...


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Protas is cashing in on an unsustainable shooting %.

Also, Tkachuk is getting matched against top pairing defensemen whereas Protas is getting cute little cushy minutes.

These two aren't even remotely close on their impact on the game; but if I were to say who was having a better season right now it would be Protas based on the relative expectations for each, and the fact that basically everything Protas is shooting is finding twine. Basically a 60 pt season for Protas is a better season relatively than a 75 pt season for Tkachuk. If you can't follow that logic that's why you might be surprised when Tkachuk landslide wins this poll.
 
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Protas definitely having the better season. Can't really argue with it, he PKs and doesn't get the PP minutes. But Tkachuk is the better player and it takes a much larger sample to prove otherwise.
strattonius said:
Protas is cashing in on an unsustainable shooting %.

Also, Tkachuk is getting matched against top pairing defensemen whereas Protas is getting cute little cushy minutes.
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I'm sympathetic to the argument that Tkachuk feels like he would get tougher opposition but surely teams should be line matching based on actual production and not on reputation.

Tkachuk is third on his team in points, Protas is second on his team. Surely you game plan for handling the other teams biggest threats and in this case if Protas is getting soft cushy minutes thats on the opposition.

(Also just checked the quality of competition splits and Protas plays higher quality competition across the board 5 on 5 than Tkachuk does)
 
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Brady is currently in his longest points drought since his rookie season (7 games and counting).

I wouldn't say his offensive contributions lately are consistent with his larger body of work.
 
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Brady Tkachuk is one on my least favourite players, but he's still (probably?) better than Protas.
 
The impressive thing about Protas is he dont play on the PP. So all of his 39 points in 47 are even strength except for one SHG. While Brady only have 24 points outside the PP.

Also knowing how good Protas defensive game is and producing that much even with no PP its hard to say he is not having a better season than Tkachuck. He has been the Caps best forward this year.

The list of players ahead of Protas in even strength points: MacKinnon, Draisaitl, McDavid, Rantanen, Kucherov, Pastrnak, Marner, Konecny and Kaprizov.
 
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Tkachuk is having a really bad season for his standards. I think his defensive metrics are going to improve but it needs to be significant because he's not delivering
 
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Protas probably needs to show this a little more/longer for people to really vote for him, but he's definitely had a better season. Not sure year in year out its gonna be Protas, but a little PP time would help his cause too. Tkachuk is having a bad season for his standard on pace for 64 points when in reality he's a 75ish point guy
 
jbeck5 said:
He's got almost 3/4 of the votes...or am I missing a joke with the word "loosing" instead of "losing"?
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Objectively, Protas is having the better season.

He's scoring at a higher clip and has been an even strength beast and he plays in all situations other than the PP. If he had PP time, he'd be a PPG+ player.
 
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DitchMarner said:
Objectively, Protas is having the better season.

He's scoring at a higher clip and has been an even strength beast and he plays in all situations other than the PP. If he had PP time, he'd be a PPG+ player.
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Explain me why he is not on PP.

Why ? GOD WHY !?

(I need to win my pool this year.)

Amazing player
 
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