I completely agree. No one wants to acknowledge that he’s getting overrated and I like the guy but he is.
He gets a lot of his praise because of the Canadian media, I get he’s the center in the line and is fast out there but my god Rantanen is a beast out there too and has way better numbers starting his career And landeskog is a great puck possession player. In fact landeskog is good at everything.
Mackinnon was a 60ish or less pt guy for Like half decade then boom Rantanen shows up and he doubles, yes Doubles his production. Now he’s a top three forward I guess.
Eichel that low is a joke. Draisaitl ten spots above Eichel is hilarious. I’m sorry but Draisaitl couldn’t anchor a second line when he was tasked with this assignment by two different coaches and gets to play with the best player in the league who gift wraps him so many glorious scoring chances. amazing season absolutely but a lot of
Those points on those 3 on 3,s with Connor the powerplay with Connor the first line with Connor, he’s like a magnet. There’s a reason he can’t play on the second line. He absolutely needs Connor. I know their weren’t scoring wingers in Edmonton on line two, that didn’t stop Eichel from scoring at a point per game clip with girgensens and Rodrigues as linemates when he had a league low scoring team. Mackinnon had an awful season when this was the case for him. But for Eichel? Nah he only got 64 in 67 with a team outside him that scored 173 goals. Also this guys list His criteria was last year wasn’t going to be everything so not sure why a guy who’s literally in the best spot to get points (with mcdavid) is above a guy who is in the worst so spot to get points in Eichel. Playing on the worst teams that barely score.
Fact: Eichel has scored 201 pts in his last 203 games in the past three years despite always facing the best defensemen every shift, an awful supporting cast and two sprained ankles. And he’s not even 23. Before going down in injury in December 2018 Jack Eichel lead the league in shoes (still finished top five despite missing here weeks and with that was also very high in scoring chances as well) he lead the league in multi point games behind only Mackinnon and Rantanen with 17 at the time in December. He was third in primary assists only behind mcdavid and marner. He as fifth in offensive zone possession only behind Panarin mcdavid and Barzal. He was he highest scoring eastern center not names Brayden point. He was third in total assists, he was 7th in total points, was over a plus 5 (which is like a plus fifteen difference from previous seasons completely change going his defensive game while becoming captain) amongst other things while remaining a top skater and transition player. Also the captain of a team that was first place in the entire NHL.
He also finished the season as the only player in the top 25 to not have a single
Teammate get over 63 points.
But yeah let’s rank Leon “I get twenty mcdavid chances” a period Draisaitl above that. I wouldn’t be remotely upset or even typing out this stuff if this was one guys opinion but apparently all those who don’t watch a bad buffalo team and completely don’t realize the absurd nature that is Jack Eichel on the ice think this is true too. Draisaitl won a poll, my god...Lol!
All you have to do is Just think Of it like this.Eichel had mcdavid ...and Draisaitl wAs the top center on the sabres take away all the ooonts he got because of mcdavid and now take Eichel and out him with mcdavid. I mean you honestly don’t think that would make up the ten Pts both ways to make up that twenty point difference last year? I don’t even want to imagine his point totals in that scenario because it would clearly make him a top 2-3 player in the game. I mean just thinking of all the chances eichels teammates fan on due to incompetence is infuriating, give him a great player and he would improve on his 82 in 77 this year. He finally gets a pretty good one in skinner and Jeff had 32 goals by the all star break. Anyway ....people will see in time. I told them he was better then barzal, the fans who don’t watch Eichel said no, I was right. I said he was better the. Laine, the fans who don’t watch Eichel said no, I was
Right. And I’m right here too. I’m fine with. Barkov and maybe Matthews or Mackinnon (even though his career numbers are better then Mackinnon points per game with less help and pretty close to Matthews with less
Help) but Draisaitl, just give it up and face the situations with a clear head. I won’t say Scheifele is better because he’s got wheeler and ton of help on that PP especially Kyle Connor but they’re
In the same tier. But these are players
I can respect the opinion but Draisaitl. Good god.
