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.

 

[22FUTON9]

You go to a Mack/ Kucherov thread and all you see is people trying to discredit/take shots at McDavid using their insane seasons. Really lame tbh.

Mack and Kuch are never going to be considered Crosby-Jagr level, just due to how their careers started, but the past 2,3 years they’ve absolutely dominated around the level of peak Jagr and Crosby.

Just ignoring McDavid, and their PPG lead over #3 (Draisaitl) is just around .2 and their lead in PPG in comparison to the 10th best scorer is around .4 (Marner/Matthews)

These numbers are give or take around the same number as Crosby’s number over Malkin (#2 in PPG) and Sedin (#10) As well as Jagr’s number over Sakic (#3 in PPG) and Modano (#10 in PPG)

The time frame you could argue but I think we could all agree that Jagr’s prime was from around 97/98-00/01 and from Crosby anywhere around 07-13 (unless you’re picking a time frame such as 10/11-12/13, which he played 99 games, the numbers are pretty consistent)

The gap is obviously different but Lemieux/McDavid IMO is just on a higher level offensively than all these guys.

 

[bobholly39]

For what it's worth - past 82 games:

Kucherov - 45 goals, 101 assists, 146 points
MacKinnon - 51 goals, 99 assists, 150 points
McDavid - 33 goals, 101 assists, 134 points

Definitely a decent sized gap.

Next one in line:

Panarin - 52 goals, 68 assists, 120 points

 

[tarheelhockey]

Prime Crosby and prime Jagr were clearly more dominant vs. their peers than prime MacKinnon.

There is no reason to think that Crosby and Jagr, in their primes, aren't separating themselves from the pack as they did during their careers.

Again I think every one would agree with this if we are looking at their entire primes. The consistency of a Crosby or Jagr is what separates them from someone like MacKinnon, and same can be said of McDavid.

But if we are looking only at how MacKinnon is playing right now, he is at that Crosby/Jagr level. The reason he hasn’t completely pulled ahead of all his peers is that there are currently a couple of other guys playing at that same level. That’s not MacKinnon’s fault, it’s just a function of timing.

In other words, Crosby or Jagr wouldn't be pulling away from 2023/2024 McDavid or Kucherov either. They happened not to play their best seasons against that kind of competition. It is what it is.