Dead Coyote
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Lol, by 2 and 3 points as a 25 and 27 year old, yes he did produce more.Alright, I'll accept the rather have McBain than Harris and Dvorak. Dvorak, aside from his first season has been hurt, or not useful.
Now, McBain is easily not better than Evans and I'm kind of wanting a tougher centre.
McBain sucks at faceoffs while Evans is at 54%, while McBain was at 46%.
Evans played a ridiculous amount of time on the pk, I believe he took the most faceoffs shorthanded and finished at 46%. For comparison McBain had 36% shorthanded.
Now, Evans produced more offensively. He didn't get a chance on the top line with good players.
McBain overwhelmingly also played on the 4th line, yes he did see time with Keller and Schmaltz in a few games, but it's not like he spent the entire season stapled there.
And yeah, Evans is definitely better on the faceoffs. So is Dvorak.
Unfortunately, that's not all you need to succeed in the NHL, and while I don't think Evans is much worse than McBain, it's very close, he just isn't close to being as valuable as McBain is. McBain is exactly the type of player everyone in the league salivates over that will not be traded because his value to his team is higher than his value around the league. It's the exact same with Crouse. They're very similar players but McBain is way more physical and nasty, and plays the much more valuable position, while also getting put with worse players than Crouse is.
McBain has a different skillset than Evans does and there are reasons to favor one over the other, for sure. Like you said, Evans is better at faceoffs and on the PK. McBain is a better net front presence, more physical, nastier, and a better cycler while being good, but not as good as Evans defensively. However his upside is a lot higher than Evans is and he is a much better center on Utah than Evans would be- they already have Bjugstad, Hayton, Kerfoot, and Boyd. Dunno if that would be true on MTL, but it is true on Utah. He is certainly not a worse center than Evans though.