I’m a Canuck’s fan, and posting on a Canuck’s board. I have posted my bias outlook before here. So, yes I’m serious about how great Bo is. I just don’t understand all the negative stuff, and (kind of) hate for our players, and management. Sure we are now at the bottom of the league, but (with super great young players like Bo) I think our future looks very bright indeed.
I don’t like Couture, and really think Draisatl is way overpaid.
This isn't about being positive or negative, it's accuracy. Praising Bo and deriding Draisailt and Couture doesn't make sense. They are clearly better players. It's fine to like Bo. It's also fair to dislike Draisaitl and Couture as a matter of preference, but if we are evaluating them all on merit, your statements do not hold in any factual sense.
Be a fan. Be the most positive fan you want to be. At the same time, allow others to be negative if that is their conclusion.
In the end, an overly positive or negative opinion gets found out for what it is here. It's just a function of a board that wants/seeks truth rather than fiction, even if the fiction helps your fandom. Everything has a place here.
I'd put Horvat as like the 30th best centerman in the NHL. Or somewhere in the 28-32 range.
If you trade him, you are just hoping another centerman turns out like him.
Intriguing statement. I did a work up based upon the top C scorers this past year, excluding the Cs that played primarily on the wing. These are the Cs I feel are better than Horvat (no research done), give or take a few:
1. McDavid
2. Malkin
3. Mackinnon
4. Kopitar
5. Crosby
6. Stamkos
7. Tavares
8. Kuznetsov
9. Seguin
10. Barkov
11. E. Staal
12. Trocheck
13. Schenn
14. Draisaitl
15. Pavelski
16. Monahan
17. Eichel
18. Matthews
19. Bergeron
20. Larkin
21. Couture
22. Getzlaf
23. Scheifele
24. Kadri
25. Johansen
26. Stastny
27. Toews
28. Turris
Here are the ones that could be argued to be better:
Stepan
Duchene
O'Reilly
Backlund
J. Staal
Koivu
Zibanejad
Dubois
Nugent-Hopkins
Johnson
These are the Cs that have only played one season at C, or have performed as a high end C for one season:
Point
Schenn
Karlsson
Barzal
Hischier
How do you see it?