People complaining about Kucherov getting empty net points and yet McDavid and Mackinnon have more career empty net points that Kucherov.
I had to chuckle when in the Boston game he was at the Bruins blueline the moment the Bruins dumped the puck in. It's kind of like a 6-on-4 for the other team with Kucherov out there.
McDavid won the Art Ross two years ago with a league leading 11 ENP. Kuch has 12 this year. I guess 11 is okay but 12 is too many?
That was literally a set play. Hedman grabs the dump in behind the net and immediately rims it around the glass while Kuch bolts for the offensive zone to negate icing. Sorry for outsmarting the other team?
Yes, 11 is ok when you win the scoring title by 8pts and the two guys tied at #2 in scoring had 11 and 8 EN pts respectively.
That's a lot of pretzel making. SMDH
This just sounds like sour grapes imho
Ok you better get a memo drafted and sent out the league to let everyone know.
Whoa.....I'm not trying to bring anyone down, just replying to a comment.....I wouldn't necessarily dig deep to EN pts, but there is absolutely a clear difference between McDavid's EN pts of 11 when he won the scoring title by 8pts and number #2 guy also had 11 EN pts vs. current race where he's up 1pt on McDavid but has 12 EN pts to McDavid's 5....MacKinnon is closer with 8, which is still 4 less than Kuch and he's up on total points.
I'm not the one that brought it up, I don't care.....however, if you want to suggest it's the same as 2 years ago when McDavid won scoring 11 EN points, I'm sorry, I'll disagree....simple as that.
A EN point is the same no matter which year it happens in.
The premise was someone wouldn't like the Art Ross being decided by someone scoring more empty net pts than someone else....so, say winning the scoring race by 2 points, but scoring 7-8 more EN points than the next guy. Personally I wouldn't necessarily care, a point is a point. But that isn't comparable to winning the scoring title where EN points make no difference at all. I don't care if the guy scores 60 EN points and no one else in the league even gets 1....if he's winning the scoring title by 80pts....doesn't make a difference.
A difference of 0.07 is like 0.7 points in 10 games. So its not a given.
Maybe, but MacK is currently in the lead, so maybe his to lose at the moment. Don't forget, they won't all play the same number of games, so it's closer than PPG suggests. If they all play the rest of the games MacKinnon plays 82, Kucherov plays 81 and McDavid plays 80 and they are pacing for 141, 142 and 143pts respectively.....so it's really anyone's right now
Not really anyone's fault
Since points are points, its really irrelevant who has more EN points even in a tight race. You cant go back to game 1 and decide an EN point is worth less cause its gonna be a tight art ross race.
I agree. Close enough that it's a missed call or flubbed pass or a post.
True, and I'm not saying Connor is guaranteed to win or anything, it's up for grabs but I think based on points per games played he still is the favorite, despite being 3rd in points.
