Not when you are differentiating players that are so close to each other in terms of production. It’s just a fact: even strength points are more impressive, and difficult to accumulate, than powerplay points. And J Hockey is routing the competition by that metric.
I’m not entering the debate whether or not ESP are more impressive. It’s definitely not a fact. I’m telling you that an ESP or a PPP brings the same value to a team. That is a fact.
Disagree.
No actually, if a hypothetical player, let's say he wears 97, were to play the entire 2 minute PP pretty regularly, his points would not be as valuable as someone who scores them at 5v5.
As I’ve mentioned before, they are both worth 1 point for the team. It doesn’t matter if the players get them on the power play or at even strength. I fail to see where they’re “worth more” to a team’s success than PPP.
There is a reason why McDavid plays more on the PP. If anything, it adds to his case for being the most valuable.
He plays more on the PP because Sutter.
He has 3 more than McDavid in 240 less minutes. So right off the bat you're premise is wrong.
Why would it be? You have to be great in all situations to win hockey games (ES, PP, PK). Some players benefit of more support when they play at ES and some players benefit more than others when they’re on the PP. At the end, players produce best when their usage is maximized. Usually, coaches make sure they deploy their players in a way that favours their team’s success. McDavid and Huberdeau are better than Gaudreau on the power play, but Gaudreau has been better than them at ES (which can be partly explained by him playing on the best line in the league).
Why do you think that's been the best line in the league?
What’s the website you are using to see this kind of data? Apparently, the one I used was not accurate. Sorry about that.
I guess, it's not the best only because of Gaudreau. It's sum of three players, team and coaching. I have seen multiple times here argument, that Gaudreau has made Tkachuk and Lindholm better, but no one telling, that those two have helped Gaudreau with his best season ever. Everyone on that line has had great season, but same time you can't just pick one from there and tell, how he has been most valuable or best player in the league. That has been the best line in league and they are helping each other. So, when you are telling, how Huberdeau and Matthews have great teams and McDavid has Draisaitl, I think, there is even bigger thing with Gaudreau with good team and great line. He is big part of it, but others aren't just products of him.
1 player doesn’t make a line the best by himself. Tkachuk and Lindholm are former top 10 picks. They are at the absolute worst, great 2nd line players without Gaudreau. JG is obviously the centrepiece of that line, but let’s not act like he elevated Sean Monahan into a 100 pts player.
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Yeah, they are good players, but they aren't the elite players that their numbers would suggest (especially Tkachuk, who is probably the weakest link on that line).
