Its just a ridiculous agenda by you. You are the only Sabres fan who goes into any Matthews thread and carries on like this. Why is Matthews been better at every comparable age? Why can't Jack score 30 goals? Why is he only an elite player on the PP and not at 5v5 (or atleast wasn't until this year) something Matthews was in his first year in the League?
You want to point to zone-entries? Why aren't those zone-entries converting to goals at 5v5 or elite possession numbers? Probably because he skates tends to stop then tries to make the perfect pass or shot instead of driving the net.
You want to act like the Sabres record with and without Eichel this year isn't much different. You won 2 of 12 games when he came back, and were in 2nd last place when he went down. You went 6-7-2 without Eichel (a points percentage of .93) with him you went 19-38-12 (.74). Okay, nice lie right there. They nose-dived after he came back to fall behind the Coyotes.
So, despite Eichel being a better leader than Matthews and continually improving why isn't his team improving with him. I mean, they have ROR and Reinhart?
You want to talk about evidence backfiring.
If Eichel is so important and is being dragged down by sub-par linemates and management, why were they better the year he missed a 1/3rd of the season than the one where he missed only a 1/4th?
You literally show up everytime Matthews has a slow patch to pitch this agenda in threads that are solely related to Matthews.
I was literally going to reply to all of what you said until your last line.
This is what you do EVERY time Eichel gets any credit.
You downplay it, talk about ice time, the powerplay, bla bla.
You realize over 45 of his 64 pts this year were primary and at even strength, right?
Never said he was a better leader then Matthews.
I said he had a bad attitude, and even the media who usually love him agreed on that.
And for you guys claiming Eichel has a poor attitude, it's just not backed up by any quotes.
He's frustrated he p;lays for a brutal team. SHOCKING.
Those numbers you pointed only showed this season, once again you completely ignore him improving the team in his first year, infact you downright lied about it and said his team got worse each season since he arrived, when in reality he helped damn near double the teams wins.
And fine let me address those numbers, that was at a time in February, March where we were basically eliminated from the playoffs. Despite all that he put up points still like a boss but when you play for the Sabres, those points don't get you wins like they would on the Leafs.
And sometimes teams play better without there Stars. Remember the Leafs winning 5 in a row when Matthews went out?
But the biggest reason outside little motivation for the games in spring and an awful team for those lossses...bad coaching, bad everyhting outside Eichel and a couple others.....but most of all..
We.
Dont.
Have.
A.
GOALIE.
That's pretty damn important.
Matthews 60 something points would mean nothing if he was a Sabre, who cares about Matthews playing well if his team loses 6-2.
It's hilarious how CLWM uses Eichel not being in big games as if that's supposed to diminish him. Matthews got the better draw of teams.
God, you guys take a drink or something. Goodnight.
