Carolina, Washington, Montreal, Boston and Rangers fans, would you take Laine or Matthews

[rent free]

this is just awful

 

[BlueBaron]

How on earth is this slanted in Laine's favor ? Bäckström and Bergeron are only centers in those teams, who are equal to Matthews.

You must be new to HF. Western Canadian fans actively seek out polls that mention Leaf players and vote against them no matter how blatantly stupid it is. You could put up a Bennet vs Matthews poll and it would be close.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Matthews

Without a #1 center, everyone else we have is painfully overslotted

 

[b in vancouver]

Either would be amazing on the Bruins.

Having Bergeron, Krejci, Matthews down the middle would be a nightmare for other teams and Matthews could take over the mantle in a few years.
But adding Laine to a winger group that includes Marchand, Pastrnak, Nash, DeBrusk, Backes would just be amazing to watch for a few years as they pile up goals.

Long term - Matthews. Short term - Laine. - still trying to decide.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

It worked very well for Oshie and Brouwer, Laine or Ovechkin in that spot would get 15 power play goals a year easily.

And if PP is your concern than Matthews is not your guy, he's not nearly as good as Laine on the PP, he has 2 PPGs this year. He'd be on the 2nd unit behind Backstrom and Kuznetsov.

PP is not my concern, that's why I want Matthews over Laine. Give me Matthews for all the things he brings at ES.

 

[General Fanager]

Habs fan voting for Mathews cause we are desperate for an elite C.

but there is no real wrong answer, both are amazing

 

[DrJustice]

Bruins fan voting Matthews, America's youngest most 40 goal scoring son.

 

[um]

PP is not my concern, that's why I want Matthews over Laine. Give me Matthews for all the things he brings at ES.

Fair enough, for the Caps i think it should be best player available, and that's basically a coin flip.

At this point it's Matthews replacing Eller at 3C or Laine replacing Vrana/Burakovsky at 2LW/2RW. Our Centre Depth is clearly stronger than our winger depth and moving Kuznetsov to wing with Matthews is not a sure thing, but giving Kuznetsov Laine to play with is a lot more safe.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

If a single person would select Patrik Laine over Auston Matthews to start or build to a NHL team, you just don't know puck.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Fair enough, for the Caps i think it should be best player available, and that's basically a coin flip.

At this point it's Matthews replacing Eller at 3C or Laine replacing Vrana/Burakovsky at 2LW/2RW. Our Centre Depth is clearly stronger than our winger depth and moving Kuznetsov to wing with Matthews is not a sure thing, but giving Kuznetsov Laine to play with is a lot more safe.

My strategy would be to have the strongest center depth. Backstrom/Matthews/Kuznetsov/Eller would be unmatched, by far the best center depth in the league. There is no harm in having an elite player on the 3rd line.

I guess we just have different philosophies.

 

[um]

My strategy would be to have the strongest center depth. Backstrom/Matthews/Kuznetsov/Eller would be unmatched, by far the best center depth in the league. There is no harm in having an elite player on the 3rd line.

I guess we just have different philosophies.

to me it's a coin flip. I just think Laine will end up the better player, and that's the main factor.

we won't know for some time what the right choice is.

 

[Menzinger]

PP is not my concern, that's why I want Matthews over Laine. Give me Matthews for all the things he brings at ES.

Not to mention a few variables are important here.

Matthews plays on the 2nd Unit PP AND for some strange reason he has to play on his off side

Put hi in a different situation and his PP production will skyrocket

 

[BB88]

You can't have both of them play at the top of the left circle on the PP. Laine leads the league in PP goals and he makes his living in the Ovi spot. Matthews is a left handed sniper, something we don't have at all on the Caps.

Ovy& Laine on the same pp, how the hell do you shut that down? (not you, a team).

Anyways the lineup would be a nightmare to match up with Backstrom+ Laine on 1 line, Kuz+ Ovy on another.

 

[Devil Dancer]

Caps fan saying Matthews. Give me that ES production, it's what kills the Caps in the playoffs.

Move Kuzy to wing or trade him or Backstrom for elite D talent.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Ovy& Laine on the same pp, how the hell do you shut that down? (not you, a team).

Anyways the lineup would be a nightmare to match up with Backstrom+ Laine on 1 line, Kuz+ Ovy on another.

Different schools of thought I guess.

 

[BruinsBtn]

I'll take Matthews, so strong on the puck. Better defensively.

 

[Martinez]

Interesting poll, I can’t vote in it but I was actually curious to see the results

 

[bur and 666 others]

I'm a Caps fan who voted for Matthews, but honestly it's a flip coin for me. Chose Matthews because I liked the idea to match the Pittsburgh depth on C. Plus Kuznetsov/Matthews versatile as both can play W or C. With that being said I personally believe that the Caps w Laine == the Caps w Matthews, so no difference here. Both are tremendous players. Hopefully they are next Ovi vs Crosby that holly war was fun.

 

[HarrisonFord]

Hi, it’s me, Hurricanes fan voting Matthews