Elias Pettersson and the quiet top 5 potential

[Sweetpotato]

He's not as explosive as McDavid and as physical as McKinnon, but he has a better shot variety in all situations. He can skate and deke like Barzal. He matches Matthews in the snap shot department, he matches Laine in the wrist shot department. He can shoot one timers just as well as Ovechkin - over even better.

Preemptive statement, he's a phenomenal player, ever Canuck and hockey fan should love him, why hype him up with false equivalents.

He doesn't have any of the shooting characteristics of any of the players you just mentioned. If he has all that talent why has he never paced for more than 33 goals a season(he's never cracked 30 in a season either)? He has as good or better one timer than Ovechkin well damn let's go look at his powerplay goals this season and see he's in the company of the best powerplay bombs in Mikko Rantanen and David Perron.....

Also a better shot selection than McDavid and MacKinnon? What does that even mean and does it matter until he actually gets even remotely close to their goal totals in a full season?

Again, he's a fantastic player and he'll likely be in the top 10 maybe top 5 players in the league at some point. But these comparisons are so far off....

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

It’s the core around him that will ultimately decide his faith amongst the best. Things are looking good. If Boeser can be that threat on the other side of the PP with Hughes back there the sky is the limit. People sleeping on Podkolzin shouldn’t as well. That guy will be a horse in front of the net.

 

[Phil McKraken]

Pettersson is very good but he is extremely overrated right now. lets look at where he ranked this year:

21st in total points
18th(tie) in 5x5 points

he wasnt even the highest scorer on his own team...

Highest scorer of his age class and under though. Next guy finished 33rd.

 

[BlueBaron]

Future top 5 C? I'm confident that happens any time now.

Future top 5 in the league? Sure he could be one of those guys but there are a lot of people in that conversation. who knows?

Great player and draft steal.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

The OP's location kind of matches the bias he has for players. He shits on Shesterkin for example because he's replacing Hank.

 

[Pyrophorus]

No, he isn't better than Matthews and LOL at Scheifele being elite defensively. You might want to double-check with Jets fans on that.

He's pretty close to a Leaf hater....no worries

 

[Pyrophorus]

Aho is better than Matthews.

Just not in production

 

[Pyrophorus]

Good for you.

Aho is still better than Matthews.

All you need to do, is show your work
Start with goals.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

He's pretty close to a Leaf hater....no worries

I like Pettersson as a player....but he's not there yet (offensively or defensively).

 

[FreeMcdavid]

My prediction is Elias will be the first player ever to win the Art Ross and the Vezina

 

[YippieKaey]

Pettersson scored 68 points in 66 games in the NHL as a 21 year old.

McDavid scored 53 goals and 124 points in 81 games as a 21 year old.

Which season?

 

[barbu]

He's obviously going to score 93 goals, 164 assists for 257 points.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Which season?

That confused me as well unless its age rather than season specific.