When Will McDrai Pull Their Collective Heads Out of Their Asses?

[BlackDogg]

I don't understand the logic of not being able to criticize Drai for playing poorly just because his huge contract doesn't kick in for another year. He would theoretically be even worse by then at this rate. He's signed at that amount.

That is like underperforming at your job but expecting a big raise next year and then picking up the pace at that point.

 

[ConnorNova0929]

Next game is against the Penguins. The schedulemakers had planned that this would be the game when McDavid would've hit 1000 career points and Crosby would've been forced to watch and get humiliated. Not looking good as McDavid would need a record tying 10 point game to get there. Too bad because it would've been epic to watch McDavid dominate Crosby like that! Guess the schedulemakers were a bit optimistic and didn't think the Oilers would struggle like this to start the season...

Source? Because this sounds like some fantasy you have invented lol.

Crosby has three Stanley Cups and multiple awards and 1,600 points. I don't think he could be embarrassed in a regular season game by another player hitting 1,000 points.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Source? Because this sounds like some fantasy you have invented lol.

Crosby has three Stanley Cups and multiple awards and 1,600 points. I don't think he could be embarrassed in a regular season game by another player hitting 1,000 points.

Agree! McDavid doesn’t even hold Crosby’s jock at this point. Regular season points are nice but Crosby is the reigning greatest player who’s still active and it’s not close.

 

[Mulletman]

Source? Because this sounds like some fantasy you have invented lol.

Crosby has three Stanley Cups and multiple awards and 1,600 points. I don't think he could be embarrassed in a regular season game by another player hitting 1,000 points.

Dude when McDavid is hot he's been putting up about 18 points in 8 games. It just so happens that Crosby was scheduled to visit Edmonton for the Oilers 8th game. If McDavid had a hot start he would've most likely potted his 1000th point against Crosby. Just like Ovechkin just happens to play the last game of the season in Pittsburgh this season, making it the most likely that Ovechkin scores his Gretzky record breaking goal against Crosby. Somebody who makes the schedule clearly has a axe to grind with Crosby...

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Somebody who makes the schedule clearly has a axe to grind with Crosby...

 

[Bryanbryoil]

I'd like to see McDrai shoot the puck more period. Connor has Hyman who makes a living going hard to the net and both Skinner and Arvidsson have that in their games as well. Drai needs to just put his head down sometimes and pound the pill on net. He doesn't need to only score on onetimers. Connor showed what he can do when he has a shooters mentality until he once again didn't.

 

[Duke74]

This was the assist on one of our only two goals. Was a great play. Seems strange for somebody to make this specific point when it was a scoring play. He was setting up Skinner and Arvid all night. Some shifts that were outstanding. All Drai was doing was winning faceoffs, gaining zones, fighting off checks. Whats the rest of the club other than Mcd or Drai doing. Not a thing.

I found it interesting that Carolina's OT goal came on a play where Draisaitl was the lone man back defending while McDavid and Bouchard blew the zone yet Draisaitl is the one that gets shit on. Some poster in the GDT even had the audacity to call him a "f***ing loser." For what? For defying the myth that he doesn't play defence?

At this point, I've learned to accept the fact that certain posters are predisposed to hating on Draisaitl and will single him out exclusively in a time when the whole team is ass. We should learn to live with it. After all, we have nine more years of this...

 

[crowfish]

Agree! McDavid doesn’t even hold Crosby’s jock at this point. Regular season points are nice but Crosby is the reigning greatest player who’s still active and it’s not close.

Let's just ignore the facts that McDavid has won more of the major awards in half the amount of time, 5 Ross & 3 MVP vs 2 Ross 2 MVP (in 9 seasons vs 19), and then let's also ignore that McDavids playoff stats are way better (3rd alltime pts/game vs 16th all-time). But besides those small inconvenient details, "it's not close"

Can you imagine if someone comes along and wins more MVPs and Art Rosses than McDavid 9 seasons into their career? That is almost impossible to fathom, but that is what McDavid has done to Crosbys resume. It would be like if Bedard has 7 Art Rosses and 5 MVPs 8 years from now. But yet your sentiment is a popular one, people really do not want to accept that McDavid > Crosby.

 

[McShogun99]

3x3 OT means absolutely nothing. It's just pond hockey and wins/losses are pretty much a crapshoot like the shootout.

During regualr 5x5 play this season both Mcdavid and Draisaitl have been horrible defensively but history tells us that won't last long. 2-4-1 with our next 3 games against teams that were outside the playoffs last season. If they go 4-5-1 in their first 10 games it really isn't all that bad.