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This crowd sure turned on Kessel. Remember when he was supposedly better than Kane?
This crowd sure turned on Kessel. Remember when he was supposedly better than Kane?
9pts in last 10 gp
6 in last 4
Heating up.
Another sneaky, quiet, unnoticeable 3 pt game.
Forgot stealthy
This crowd sure turned on Kessel. Remember when he was supposedly better than Kane?
Remember you posting a while back that Nylander started off slow last year in the AHL before taking off, and, what do you know, the same has happened at the NHL level.
Feels really lucky to have him on the Leafs
This crowd sure turned on Kessel. Remember when he was supposedly better than Kane?
William Nylander has the best point-per-game ratio in the NHL of any forward from the 2014 draft.
Sam Reinhart
Leon Draisaitl
Sam Bennett
Jake Virtanen
Nikolaj Ehlers
Nick Ritchie
Dylan Larkin
Robbie Fabbro
Jared McCann
David Pastrnak
He's only played 21 games but in those 21 games, he has played with inferior players compared to any player on that list.
I expect him to put up 50+ points next season as a rookie.
Another sneaky, quiet, unnoticeable 3 pt game.
Forgot stealthy
On the season yes, not if you factor in Drai's 37 games last year.Leon Draisaitl's is higher.
Leon Draisaitl's is higher.
Draisaitl - 0.555 PPG
Nylander - 0.619 PPG
On the season yes, not if you factor in Drai's 37 games last year.
I know, I was just pointing out how you arrived at your numbers. Draisatls good but he benefited heavily from that period where Hall was playing at an elite level.If you exclude his games last year, Draisaitl is on pace for about 56 points over 82 games, while playing with guys like Hall, Eberle and McDavid.
Nylander is on pace for about 51 points over 82 games, while playing with guys like Colin Greening and P-A Parenteau.
Decent season but let's see him put up points when the games matter. So far, his only chance was the WJHC and he failed.
Lol!
He had 1 goal in 1 period of play this WJC, before being cheap-shotted, and last year he had 10 pts in 7 games.
Kessel was/is such a talent, how could you already forget? I'm not sure a fully developed Marner or Nylander will ever make a Kessel rush off the wing look quite as easy. With that said, Nylander as a C playing this 200 foot game is more valuable.Guys Nylander is a better player already than Kessel. He's so much more responsible on D (the best two way C on the Leafs), he isn't afraid to recover the puck, and he doesn't take as many low percentage possession wasting shots as Kessel.
I think some of you still view Kessel as an 80-point guy when the reality is he's a 60-point guy and incredibly one dimensional.
Probably or as he's now known as JohnnyGoodDro, I'm sure he's figuring out how to defend Bennet's decent year and lack of performance when played as a center.Wasn't that Haatley?
How about some of his recent games (prior to this one) where he looked quite poor? In fact his game against Buffalo was about as bad as someone could play. It hasn't all been good. Let's relax.let's also remember Nylander couldn't buy a point let alone a goal for 3 or 4 games while he was getting chances and setting up teammates who would fail miserably...He could easily have 3 or 4 more points to his total which would get him near a PPG