Couturier or Matthews?

[Fire Benning]

Who is better?

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[Tkachuky]

Sean had a career year last year but this is Matthews.

 

[The Moose is Loose]

Matthews easily

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Close but auston

 

[bauer]

Matthews has a better future, but right now i'll take the guy that actually shows up in playoffs and is better defensively. Couturier playing on one leg had 5x more points than Matthews did this year.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Matthews has a better future, but right now i'll take the guy that actually shows up in playoffs and is better defensively. Couturier playing on one leg had 5x more points than Matthews did this year.

Couturier was a notorious under-performer in the playoffs previously, to the tune of 4 points in 19 games. But now he's the guy who "actually shows up in the playoffs" because he had one good series against a weak defensive team and weak goalie

 

[bauer]

Couturier was a notorious under-performer in the playoffs previously, to the tune of 4 points in 19 games. But now he's the guy who "actually shows up in the playoffs" because he had one good series against a weak defensive team and weak goalie

huge difference. Matthews was the 1C on his team this year. he was expected to produce. those past Couturier performances were when he was a rookie playing as a shutdown 3C. this was the first playoff he was in a scoring role, and he delivered. Matthews didn't.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Matthews has a better future, but right now i'll take the guy that actually shows up in playoffs and is better defensively. Couturier playing on one leg had 5x more points than Matthews did this year.

What?

Coutourier has played 24 career playoff games. He's recorded at least 1 point in only 4 games. A couple big games and then nada.

 

[Yasuo]

Matthews easily. I don't even know if Couturier will ever score 70+points again in his career

 

[bauer]

Couturier was a notorious under-performer in the playoffs previously, to the tune of 4 points in 19 games. But now he's the guy who "actually shows up in the playoffs" because he had one good series against a weak defensive team and weak goalie

you mean the team with 2 of the best players of all time and coming off back to back Stanley Cups?

 

[Martin Skoula]

Matthews has a better future, but right now i'll take the guy that actually shows up in playoffs and is better defensively. Couturier playing on one leg had 5x more points than Matthews did this year.

So Hyman > Giroux then too right? 8 points in his last 13 playoff games vs 4 in 12 for Giroux.

 

[bauer]

So Hyman > Giroux then too right? 8 points in his last 13 playoff games vs 4 in 12 for Giroux.

that's pretty stupid on a numbers of levels. Giroux just finished 2nd in the league in scoring. he's also had monster playoffs before, we know he can elevate his game come playoffs. Matthews has yet to have a good run.

 

[Nizdizzle]

Matthews is better now, and most certainly will be on another tier going forward.

 

[Nizdizzle]

that's pretty stupid on a numbers of levels. Giroux just finished 2nd in the league in scoring. he's also had monster playoffs before, we know he can elevate his game come playoffs. Matthews has yet to have a good run.

I mean, yeah except for literally last year where he had 4g 5pts in 6 games against a team that finished the regular season with 118 points. Short Memory I guess.

 

[Martin Skoula]

that's pretty stupid on a numbers of levels. Giroux just finished 2nd in the league in scoring. he's also had monster playoffs before, we know he can elevate his game come playoffs. Matthews has yet to have a good run.

4 goals 5 points in 6 games as a rookie is not a good run? Giroux used to be able to elevate his game, not so much in his past 3 runs. "Right now I'll take the guy who actually shows up in the playoffs", has Giroux actually shown up in the past 5 years?

Or, maybe, just maybe, small sample sizes of 6-7 games don't actually mean anything.

 

[bauer]

4 goals 5 points in 6 games as a rookie is not a good run? Giroux used to be able to elevate his game, not so much in his past 3 runs. "Right now I'll take the guy who actually shows up in the playoffs", has Giroux actually shown up in the past 5 years?

Or, maybe, just maybe, small sample sizes of 6-7 games don't actually mean anything.

or we could just go by regular season where Giroux was the far better player. but this isn't about him and Matthews anyway.

 

[Martin Skoula]

or we could just go by regular season where Giroux was the far better player. but this isn't about him and Matthews anyway.

We could go by the regular season where Matthews scored more goals in 20 less games and had a better PPG than Couturier.

 

[Nizdizzle]

We could go by the regular season where Matthews scored more goals in 20 less games and had a better PPG than Couturier.

You only get to use regular season when it makes the Flyers look better.

 

[jetsforever]

Seriously? Take Matthews.

 

[Menzinger]

It’s not even remotely close.

 

[Atomos2]

Matthews has a better future, but right now i'll take the guy that actually shows up in playoffs and is better defensively. Couturier playing on one leg had 5x more points than Matthews did this year.

You're fooling if yourself if you think switching out Matthews for Couturier on the Leafs makes them a better team and switching out Couturier for Matthews on the Flyers doesn't make them a way better team.

 

[Spirit of 67]

Well that didn't take long.

 

[bring back the jets]

You're fooling if yourself if you think switching out Matthews for Couturier on the Leafs makes them a better team and switching out Couturier for Matthews on the Flyers doesn't make them a way better team.

The only advantage Couturier would have had over Matthews in the playoffs is that other teams would have cared far less to focus him out of the game.

 

[TNT87]

Matthews.

 

[tony d]

Went with Matthews.