Drivesaitl
Finding Hyman
A better example is his compatriot, for Germany, Klose. A long list of players are better but who has more goals. The player that can instantly recognize a spot, how to get there, whats happening, how to tap one in, what it requires to get a goal in a situation. Player had incredible game moment recognition in scoring areas. Like Draisaitl.There are great explanations and examples in this thread.
There is one thing that was touched upon concerning his accuracy and high intelligence. Draisaitl has an elite ability to focus and then quickly change focus. You can see it in his eyes and the results.
It's easier to give an example in a baseball setting. Imagine you are a shortstop with accuracy issues. Your coach asks you what you throw at after you scoop up a ground ball. You reply, "George, the first baseman."
Your coach tells you that you are doing it all wrong then. You don't aim for George. You aim at the little spot in the middle of George, just below his ribcage. Where that tiny little spot of color is on his logo. Focus on that and let everything else blur. Now, many people cant focus that quickly or that well so you can wait until that big fat glove target gets thrown out there for you. Don't aim for that. Aim for that little bump in the middle of the glove. Focus.
So Draisaitl doesn't aim at the net or a region. He appears to aim at little spots inside the net. Amazingly he can shift that elite focus from accepting a pass to aiming at said little spot in less than a blink of an eye. That heavily contributes to his high shooting percentage.
To process information that fast is pretty incredible.
tbh I didn't understand your example. Baseball is about as unlike hockey as Mars is to the Earth. Soccer is relational like hockey in form, just more players and bigger pitch and goals.
Drai has spot to spot recognition. He isn't scoring all his goals from a rote spot. Sure he's great from that spot but he can change up as required and his preternatural danger is his hockey reads, and scoring chance reads. A bell goes off in Drais head before everybody else. Thats what Klose is like. He gets to that loose ball before anybody else and recognizes the ball could end up there. His last goal against Brazil is typical of the player and what separates him from the pack. He parries a close in shot to get the rebound, then slots the rebound home. Who would do that? Klose was also clinical in recognizing where his shot had to go. Like Drai.
i encourage people to watch Drai and think about his game much more. So many of his goals happen after previous chances. That he gets multiple chances in sequences despite every team knowing how dangerous he is and committing coverage to him speaks volumes about his ability to cloak in and out of scoring spots and change them up which hasn't even been mentioned. Nor has his Stop pass, shoot quick wizard play from center slot. Few other players have ever had the hand eye to do that play. Its the hockey equivalent of a bicycle kick goal.