bobholly39
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McDavid is better now than Crosby was in his prime. He’s just been missing the supporting cast he needs to have the same amount of team success that Crosby had in 08/09.
BTW, didn’t Crosby’s scoring kinda dry up after the Caps series in ‘09?
Not Factual .McDavid is better now than Crosby was in his prime. He’s just been missing the supporting cast he needs to have the same amount of team success that Crosby had in 08/09.
BTW, didn’t Crosby’s scoring kinda dry up after the Caps series in ‘09?
Also, McDavid is nowhere near the all around threat that Sid was in his prime at this point in his career.
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It's funny that your argument is him no-showing in several series.3 points in a 7 game SCF. Am I reading that right?
I’ve seen the guy be a complete no-show in several series, including years when he won Cups. Thank God for Malkin and Kessel.
In his prime Crosby is a Rocket Richard winner that plays a 200 ft game and can go toe to toe physically with any player in the league in the corner.
How do you conflate "200ft game" with "Selke contender"? No one is saying that Crosby was as good defensively then as he is now but he was more than competent in his own end. Analytics and the eye test both indicate that McDavid has a lot of trouble in his own zone, most likely because he is cheating on the offensive side of things.I eagerly await the revisionist history of 2040 where we talk about McDavid's "200 ft. game" early in his career because he's a Canadian-born center and they automatically have defensive prowess. Crosby was never bad defensively but this narrative of him being a Selke contender has got to stop.
While True, by analytics, Crosbys 08-09 was quite poor defensively though. And its fair to note that McDavids offense is on another level based on said analytics to Crosby through the first 5 seasons.How do you conflate "200ft game" with "Selke contender"? No one is saying that Crosby was as good defensively then as he is now but he was more than competent in his own end. Analytics and the eye test both indicate that McDavid has a lot of trouble in his own zone, most likely because he is cheating on the offensive side of things.
Crosby had an all around game in 08-09?
I eagerly await the revisionist history of 2040 where we talk about McDavid's "200 ft. game" early in his career because he's a Canadian-born center and they automatically have defensive prowess. Crosby was never bad defensively but this narrative of him being a Selke contender has got to stop.
I eagerly await the revisionist history of 2040 where we talk about McDavid's "200 ft. game" early in his career because he's a Canadian-born center and they automatically have defensive prowess. Crosby was never bad defensively but this narrative of him being a Selke contender has got to stop.
McDavid is better now than Crosby was in his prime. He’s just been missing the supporting cast he needs to have the same amount of team success that Crosby had in 08/09.
BTW, didn’t Crosby’s scoring kinda dry up after the Caps series in ‘09?
There's a lot of revisionist history going on Hfboards about Crosby's defense. It was only recently that Crosby became decent defensively, before that he floated and did a lot of standing around. Not because he's lazy, he's one of the hardest working players to ever play in the NHL. It was because he had to generate every scoring chance for his line to succeed, leading to a lot of blown coverage.
McDavid right now is much better than Crosby defensively in 08-09, I'd say better overall as well 5on5.
Wait mcdavid was the best player in the league this year?Ah ok. So, we saw Crosby really underachieve compared to the prior year in 07-08 and while he was amazing in the playoffs it was definitely questionable on whether or not he could do that without Hossa + the cap implications that hit the Penguins.
With McD, I honestly don’t think there was any publicity about the injury until that documentary so in retrospect I’d agree if we are talking start of the regular season McDavid was just the best player in the league versus Crosby who got over shadowed by Ovi and Malkin.
It’d be kind of like if McDavid had a good playoffs but nothing incredible and Drai and MacK went off this year.
Wait mcdavid was the best player in the league this year?
Mcdavid was the best player in 18-19?Read. Heading into the regular season this year. So last year.
Wait mcdavid was the best player in the league this year?