Draisaitl or MacKinnon

[82Ninety42011]

No disrespect to Draisaitl who I think is top 5 player at worst but Mack to me is number two behind McDavid.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

No disrespect to Draisaitl who I think is top 5 player at worst but Mack to me is number two behind McDavid.

That’s the way I see it too.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

If you asked me in January I would say MacKinnon in a heartbeat, AINEC.

There was always certain doubts people had in Draisaitl's game. Particularly away from McDavid. And they were justifiable to a degree.
There was absolutely NO doubt about MacKinnons game for the past 2 seasons.


That said, Now? After Drai carried the Oilers away from McD on his own line?
mmmMmmmmm........

I can see people wanting to see Draisaitl do it for 2 seasons.. but lets be honest here.

NOBODY ever gave Drai the benefit of the doubt.

Did anyone think he could score 50?
Was he even in the Art Ross / Hart discussion before this season?

NOPE!
We all thought the start of the year was an abberation like Rantanen last season.


Thing is, Draisaitl keeps proving me wrong, and proving me wrong, and proving me wrong. And I'm his BIGGEST fan, and an Oiler Homer.



So I'm voting Drai, in a vote I'm positive he will lose.
I'll watch to see if any of you guys re-think how close this is in a couple more years.

 

[Video Nasty]

It'll be interesting to see the spin for MacKinnon if Drai wins the Hart and/or the Lindsay.

It's going to start getting a lot more difficult to argue intangibles when one player has back to back 100 point campaigns, a 50 goal season (and a 43 goal season that best Mac's career best), an Art Ross and potentially one or both of the significant individual awards and the other player lacks...well all of these.

Drai has played well enough over the past two seasons (and not too shabby before that, he does after all have four consecutive 70+ point seasons) to earn him the vote over MacKinnon.

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

Does Mackinnon even PK? His defense isn't that much better than Drai.

No, he doesn’t PK.

MacKinnon is fairly mediocre defensively. He’s made strides in the last couple years though. His speed is definitely valuable on the back-check.

 

[Steven Toast]

Wasn’t this poll done a month ago?

 

[Asymmetric Solution]

MacK and not close for me.

 

[hockeyisgud]

Who do I take moving forward. There was a poll including Drai and Matthews recently. Here's my very sensible and logical way of ranking who I take moving forward between the 3.

Matthews over Mack
Drai over Matthews
Mack over Drai

Somehow - this makes sense in my head.

I lold

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

It'll be interesting to see the spin for MacKinnon if Drai wins the Hart and/or the Lindsay.

It's going to start getting a lot more difficult to argue intangibles when one player has back to back 100 point campaigns, a 50 goal season (and a 43 goal season that best Mac's career best), an Art Ross and potentially one or both of the significant individual awards and the other player lacks...well all of these.

Drai has played well enough over the past two seasons (and not too shabby before that, he does after all have four consecutive 70+ point seasons) to earn him the vote over MacKinnon.

I don’t know if winning a hart changes much in terms of people’s opinion on this, since that’s pretty much expected.

They’re pretty close in terms of what they bring imo. Draisaitl had the better year, so if that puts him above MacKinnon for some, fine by me.

MacKinnon plays a more exciting style, so that’s naturally going to give him the edge for some fans. I think these two will be in the same tier for a while and the debate will go back and forth throughout their careers.

 

[GreeningOil]

Ultra Homer vote for Draisaitl. But MacKinnon deserves credit for being amazing. I just wish the Oilers sucked enough for Draisaitl, McDavid, and MacKinnon

 

[Spilot23]

Ultra Homer vote for Draisaitl. But MacKinnon deserves credit for being amazing. I just wish the Oilers sucked enough for Draisaitl, McDavid, and MacKinnon

I think you've already "sucked enough" you just got the bad luck to draft the BPA at the time Boy did we dodge a bullet by losing that 2017 draft to get Makar dang I hope this goes the same with Byram.

 

[The Moose is Loose]

This is very close and didn't we have this poll last month?

 

[Regal]

If you asked me in January I would say MacKinnon in a heartbeat, AINEC.

There was always certain doubts people had in Draisaitl's game. Particularly away from McDavid. And they were justifiable to a degree.
There was absolutely NO doubt about MacKinnons game for the past 2 seasons.


That said, Now? After Drai carried the Oilers away from McD on his own line?
mmmMmmmmm........

I can see people wanting to see Draisaitl do it for 2 seasons.. but lets be honest here.

NOBODY ever gave Drai the benefit of the doubt.

Did anyone think he could score 50?
Was he even in the Art Ross / Hart discussion before this season?

NOPE!
We all thought the start of the year was an abberation like Rantanen last season.


Thing is, Draisaitl keeps proving me wrong, and proving me wrong, and proving me wrong. And I'm his BIGGEST fan, and an Oiler Homer.



So I'm voting Drai, in a vote I'm positive he will lose.
I'll watch to see if any of you guys re-think how close this is in a couple more years.

This is basically how I'm feeling. I always had doubts about Draisaitl's ability to drive offense at an elite level as a center. I knew he was better than the stats away from McDavid suggested (no one is turning a 60 point player into a 100 point player), but I didn't know if he could put up huge numbers. The underlying defensive numbers the past 2 seasons were also concerning. The way he played with RNH and Yamamoto though really cemented the idea that he could be the centerpiece of his own line, put up huge numbers and be defensively sound. That player could be the best player in the league, and I would take him over MacKinnon. And this time I want to believe in him and say he can keep it up.

 

[Tralfamadore]

Ultra Homer vote for Draisaitl. But MacKinnon deserves credit for being amazing. I just wish the Oilers sucked enough for Draisaitl, McDavid, and MacKinnon

Not enough to have only 2 of the top 3 players in the game right now?

 

[GreeningOil]

Not enough to have only 2 of the top 3 players in the game right now?

You’re right, 3 is a crowd!

 

[spiny norman]

Lopsided result.