Lol wut. Nobody actually thinks Josi will do produce like that next year, let alone a "repeatable norm" You're yelling at clouds here. Regardless, it's not surprising that people are talking about the most productive season in what, 30 years, by a defenseman who's been one of the most productive for the last 10 seasons. People taking that into account is not somehow Makar being marked down.
Framing Makar as "nearly beating Josi's career year" seems awfully generous no? We're talking 10 points not 2 or 3.
Maybe my favorite part of the high level discourse in these Josi-Makar discussions, is how much respect the Nashville skaters, in particular the forwards, receive. It's such a breath of fresh air after being such walking punchlines for years. Looking forward to the preseason rankings so we can see them back where they belong. People out here actually bending over backwards in these threads to say Nashville is underrated
It's not slight to say Makar has a clearly superior team around him, just a fact that people will most certainly take into account when comparing them.
Lastly threads like this creating hypotheticals that essentially come down to have 0% chance of ever happening, are totally pointless. It just creates somehow even lower quality discussion which can seem hard to do on the internet. I feel confident in saying that most Preds fans in tune with this season will say that Makar is a better defenseman. Better this year? Obviously it was pretty close, seems like a coin-flip depending on who you ask.
