MacKinnon has 150 points in his last 82 games

[The Panther]

I personally think Kucherov and MacKinnon are as good or better than Crosby and Ovechkin. Other than longevity, what do the elder two have over the younger pair?

 

[Offtheboard412]

I personally think Kucherov and MacKinnon are as good or better than Crosby and Ovechkin. Other than longevity, what do the elder two have over the younger pair?

An Art Ross, 3 Harts, 4 Ted Lindsays, 11 Rocket Richards.

 

[daver]

I personally think Kucherov and MacKinnon are as good or better than Crosby and Ovechkin. Other than longevity, what do the elder two have over the younger pair?

The better question is what do they younger pair have over the elder pair?

Art Rosses? Nope 3 to 2
Harts? Nope 6 to 2
Lindsays? Nope 6 to 2
Rockets? Nope 11 to 0
Cup wins? Nope 4 to 3
Conn Smythes? Nope 3 to 0

Crosby is a legitimate #5 player all-time, Ovechkin is knocking on the Top Ten (I like him right next to Jagr),

Are you saying Kucherov and Mac are Top 5ish players all-time?

 

[Acallabeth]

MacKinnon is in phenomenal form
We've seen star players unable to keep up with their own shorter-stretches pace over a full year, but Nate has already proved his historic level last season. Amazing talent.

‘10 Crosby always gets ignored too. That was an awesome year that just missed the Art Ross and was held back in part due to wingers. His best full year 5v5 probably. Like you could argue Jagr was a bit better in some years than ‘06 or ‘14, but it was roughly the same level and you could do the same with years like ‘10 as well.

I'm not sure it's fair to say that Crosby 'just missed Art Ross' in 2010. He was soundly behind Ovechkin (whose 1st half of that season was absolutely monstrous) and Sedin before padding his stats with ~10 points in 2 last games of the season against the worst team in the conference IIRC. It wasn't like last year's MacKinnon season when he was at times the scoring leader and bested his Art Ross competition in goals.