Oh yeah call me stupid in a post you dont have the balls to quote me in. Big internet tough guy here. I pointed out why I think your wrong. If you got a problem with that you can address me directly...or dont.
Sent you a PM since you are so angry you didn't get a reply.
I'm pushing back that he's a once in a generation goal-scorer, when the evidence hasn't really supported that. You've claimed Laine as the best player in that draft despite mounting evidence that he isn't. It seems stubbornness from how you viewed them 3 years ago can't change. Then you used what I would deem fairly flawed logic to dismiss a bunch of evidence showing Matthews is his equal as a goal-scorer, saying Matthews can only score 40 if goal scoring stays high. If you want to challenge the credibility of my viewpoint, then expect yours to be challenged back. I didn't make this about who was giving the opinion, you did.
But, whatever, this is about Lafreniere.
This is a message board where fans give opinions. This is not a science experiment. There is no magic science potion that proves the Leafs will win the Stanley Cup, Super Bowl, the World Series, the World Cup and the Masters. This approach against me is not going to work. I'm allowed to give opinions you might not agree with. Your "evidence" doesn't do anything for your argument or push back on mine. I think everyone who posts here knows the evidence well enough, and doesn't need to hear about the
certifiable facts that Leaf fans try to shove down everyone's through. And I think I stated a pretty realistic opinion and one many agree with that Laine will be a 40-50 goal scorer per season. There was no one else that felt the need to point out the obvious that it might not end up being true.
I think we both know that you didn't like my post because you thought it was a slight towards Matthews. This is the new thing around here after Laine had a bad season where now you can't compliment Laine's goal-scoring as being the best in his generation or predict he'll be the best goal-scorer in this generation without upsetting a certain fan base. It wasn't a slight about Matthews. It wasn't a slight about Stamkos. If Laine doesn't prove himself to score 40-50 per season, it won't be a slight towards him. There's one guy that has done it with regularity. It's not easy to do.
But now since you've made this into a Matthews vs. Laine debate, I'm going to state what I stated a few days ago when a Leaf fan arrogantly proclaimed the same thing in another thread that I was posting in. What is this new thing from Leaf fans that we aren't allowed to say Laine will have a better career? This is exactly why the Leafs fan base gets a bad reputation. It's not as if I said Cogliano or Kruger will have a better career than Matthews. Laine is a huge talent. If he's the second best player from the current generation during his career, he'll have a better career than Eichel and Aho and Barkov and MacKinnon. Are all those fan bases trying to shut down discussion?
It is not a decided matter, either way, and I'm not going to stand for this rhetoric in a discussion I take part in. If you want to act disingenuous and tell me I'm not allowed to hold that opinion when you are citing stats that favored Matthews by a completely negligible margin at this point, I'm simply not going to take part, and you can argue against someone else.
