Marner to the Leafs is what Drai is to Edmonton. McDavid/Matthews might get more attention and fanfare but Marner/LD are the true offensive engines for their team (Matthews/McDavid have more gamebreaking/rare talent but Marner/Drai consistently carry their teams). For the Leafs Marner is also a shutdown line option/pk forward so you could say he's defensively the engine as well with ROR.
No, McDavid is the true driver for the Oilers. Maybe in this series Draisaitl has played better but over 82 games McDavid drives the Oilers.
You can have your opinion but it's wrong. McDavid has more gamebreaking talent, meaning that in the regular season, against all kinds of teams, good and bad, he can exploit them more. In a playoff setting, Drai proves that he's the real engine of the team.
You have no clue what you are talking about. You don't score 153 without driving the play non-stop over 82 games. You need to be more than just a "gamebreaker".
Opinions are opinions, it’s not a good look to tell someone their opinion is wrong and yours is right. I agree that Draisaitl is a huge catalyst for the postseason and clearly ups his game when it counts but to suggest that he is the Oilers real offensive driver when for years people discredited him because they said he was only a product of McDavid. Do we so soon forget he wasn’t even a first invite to the All Star game?
In the early 90's after 142 and 163 point seasons the Oilers did almost the same against Gretzky that the Kings are doing to McDavid in this series, making sure there is a guy on him almost every shift. Tikkanen completely shut Gretzky down. The Oilers beat the King's in the playoffs 3 years in a row and I think Gretzky only had something like 22 points in 19 games in those 3 series against them. I wonder what posters would have said about him.
I actually am old enough to have followed thoose games. I`d remeber Gretzky saying Tikkanen was the most annoying player to play against. Oilers always put Tikkanen to annoy and hit the hell outta their opponent`s best players. And he sure was good at it. Might be one of the most underrated players all-time?
Are you dense? I just told you that in the regular season you play all sorts of teams compared to the playoffs. 153 over the course of a full season playing great teams and bad teams.
Its like you don't understand small sample sizes. lol
Why are you acting like Oilers fans wouldn't be parroting that McDavid is the GOAT if that small sample size was in his favour?
Who said it was? Poster took issue with me saying McDavid's gamebreaking ability is more apparent in the regular season when there are bad teams and good. Those numbers prove that to be true. Goes from a 165 point pace vs bad teams to a 135 point pace vs playoff teams.
Doesn't your logic apply to Danault too though? First of all if the dude is being matched up against Danault and there is no Danault on any other team, using numbers in games vs Danault has no bearing on numbers against other playoff teams... Secondly, if Drai is matched against Danualt instead, do you think that his numbers would be as good and McDavids would not improve? If not, then your entire argument of Drai being the engine is useless.
Yeah. That's consistent with pretty much every player who ever played.
It could just be that Drai>McDavid against a 1-3-1 zero forecheck team. It's a slog on a player like McDavid and he'll light up any team that doesn't do it.
when is a 140 point pace a lmao against playoff teams
