Maurice Richard Trophy Tournament (1995-Present) Round 1: 2004 Rick Nash vs 2004 Jarome Iginla vs 2004 Ilya Kovalchuk

[blundluntman]

MATCHUP #14 (Round 1): Rick Nash (2004) vs Jarome Iginla (2004) Ilya Kovalchuk (2004)

Rick Nash (2003-04):

Games Played	Goals	Even Strength Goals	Power Play Goals	League Wide Goals Per Game
80	41	22	19	2.57

Jarome Iginla (2003-04):

Games Played	Goals	Even Strength Goals	Power Play Goals	League Wide Goals Per Game
81	41	29	8	2.57

Ilya Kovalchuk (2003-04):

Games Played​	Goals​	Even Strength Goals​	Power Play Goals​	League Wide Goals Per Game​
81​	41​	24​	16​	2.57​

Round 1 Matchups
24 Matthews vs 97 Tkachuk Thread
23 McDavid vs 17 Crosby Thread
22 Matthews vs 06 Cheechoo Thread
21 Matthews vs 16 Ovechkin Thread
20 Pastrnak vs 20 Ovechkin Thread
19 Ovechkin vs 18 Ovechkin Thread
15 Ovechkin vs 12 Stamkos Thread
14 Ovechkin vs 09 Ovechkin Thread
13 Ovechkin vs 95 Bondra (Still Active) Thread
11 Perry vs 00 Bure Thread
10 Stamkos vs 10 Crosby Thread
08 Ovechkin vs 01 Bure Thread
07 Lecavalier vs 02 Iginla Thread
04 Nash vs 04 Iginla vs 04 Kovalchuk
03 Hejduk vs 96 Lemieux
99 Selanne vs 98 Bondra

Note: Due to the Richard Trophy not having a tiebreaker, I will conduct one myself in the first round to avoid matchup complications in later rounds.

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[Letsdothis]

Three-way-tie to the worst Rocket in history.

 

[Regal]

I’m leaning toward Iginla. Kovalchuk was on a more offensive styled team, and played huge minutes, especially on the PP, whereas Calgary was a very defensive team under Sutter. Nash is an interesting one. He didn’t play big minutes at ES but was still behind Iginla in ES scoring rate, but was way ahead of both in terms of PP efficiency. The Jackets were also a terrible team who didn’t score much, though that might have led to more garbage time goals for him. At the same time I have a hard time putting him at 19 ahead of prime Iginla in terms of goal scoring.

 

[Evergreen]

Nash doing what he did with that Columbus roster was most impressive to me. Iginla had the most support. Kovalchuk had Heatley and Savard (although those two both missed time).