Gaudreau has 4 points more than McDavid
Monahan has 4 points more than Draisaitl
Tkachuk has 3 more points than Nuge
Backlund is tied with Maroon
Brodie has 1 more point than Looch
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And people say our bottom 6 isn't scoring.
Most of his unsustainable numbers are from low powerplay shooting percentage. But when you think about it, if they had scored on the powerplay, that would lower the shot totals and expected goals for totals.
That said, his xgf/60 at ES is way up from last year. He's ppg at ES and his puck luck has been average at best. Last year he had 70 ES points and he's on pace to hit 82 now. He can realistically hit 80+ ES points and once the powerplay production normalizes, especially with powerplays up now, he'll be good for 30+ powerplay points as well.
Breaking 110 points is very realistic. Even more if the bounces are there.
Looking at advanced stats from corsica, out of all players who are on ridiculous paces right now, Connor McDavid is the only one with sustainable underlying numbers.
Gaudreau has 4 points more than McDavid
Monahan has 4 points more than Draisaitl
Tkachuk has 3 more points than Nuge
Backlund is tied with Maroon
Brodie has 1 more point than Looch
...
And people say our bottom 6 isn't scoring.
Weird cherry picking of stats.
Why isn't 2nd line centre Backlund not compare with our 2nd line centre RNH?
And does Brodie play forward now? I don't think anyone thinks our D is score at all. Calgary bottom 6 is very bad too, Bennett has 1 pt. Their D is picking up the slack.
And com'on! Drai played 5 LESS GAME then Monahan
Despite this disaster we've seen from the team so far this year, McDavid has climbed to sixth in league scoring -- and now on pace to score 104 points.
As of todayNone of this will be applicable in a few weeks when:
McDavid will have more points than Gaudreau
Draisaitl will have more points than Monahan
Nuge will have more points than Tkachuk.
Maroon will have more points than Backlund.
Lucic will have more points than Brodie (lol)
Imagine if he's finally "healthy" look out the rest of the league.Up to third in NHL scoring. I expect him to win the scoring title again. He's looked back to his old self last few games. Was amazing against Toronto despite no goals.
Gaudreau has 4 points more than McDavid
Monahan has 4 points more than Draisaitl
Tkachuk has 3 more points than Nuge
Backlund is tied with Maroon
Brodie has 1 more point than Looch
...
And people say our bottom 6 isn't scoring.
I came here to post exactly this. He has so many multi-point games yet that was only the second one with more than 3. Heck he didn't have any 4 point games all of last year.Apparently last night was only his 2nd career game with 4+ points.
That is kinda mind blowing.
Apparently last night was only his 2nd career game with 4+ points.
That is kinda mind blowing.
Especially since he has never gone more than 2 games without a point.I almost expect him to get 4 points a night. 1 point a night is considered a bad night for him.
The crazy thing about McDavid really isn't his ability to have MONSTER games in my opinion, its his ability to consistently have 2 point games. He just generates SOOOO many chances on a game-by-game basis, that even when the team is playing terribly, he's hard to keep off the scoresheet. Consistency, which is the hardest thing to have, is really one of his best abilities.
He has to have an 8 point night in him at some point in his career.This of course is not lost on me, the biggest thing that separates him from his peers is the ability to score consistently. Other players can go on hot stretches where they score at comparable paces(Hello, Kucherov), but they can't keep it up for entire seasons.
It's still pretty weird that he hasn't had that many super dominant games though.
He's been looking a lot faster both defensively and offensively. Hopefully a good sign for the team and for him!