Is Matthews the best goal scorer to enter the leauge since OV?

Is Matthews the best pure scorer to enter the league since OV?

  • Yes

    Votes: 25 15.2%
  • No, but top 3

    Votes: 41 24.8%
  • No, but top 5

    Votes: 25 15.2%
  • No, but top 10

    Votes: 48 29.1%
  • No, not even top 10

    Votes: 26 15.8%

  • Total voters
    165
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Halla

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With his goal last night, Matthews now has 50g combined reg. season and playoffs in 95 games (0.53g/gm).
Stamkos is slightly ahead (0.54g/gm), but at the same age he didnt even have 30 career goals yet. Add in his playoff numbers and he drops to the exact same rate as matthews (0.526). Crosby (0.49g/gm) and Laine are close with a 0.48g/gm.

other notables

Malkin (0.46)
Tarasenko (0.43)
Kucherov (0.40)
McDavid (0.37)
Kessel (0.36)

Is Matthews the best pure scorer to enter the league since OV? No one else besides OV was averaging more than half a goal a game or more into their 2nd season.
 

Hunter368

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Way too early to make any grand proclamations. He had one good year and a handful of games this year. Ask the question next summer.
 

Luigi Lemieux

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He has the potential but you can't call him the best natural goal scorer since Ovechkin until he actually shows it. As of now he hasn't shown to be a better goal scorer than seasons Stamkos, Crosby, Malkin, etc. have put up. You can't project stats into the future and give him the title now.
 

Hunter368

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Nov 8, 2011
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Shouldn't this be in the polls and holy crap, another Matthews thread?

Did you expect anything else? Then people get feigned shock when people complain about too many Leaf threads. It’s like locusts.....
 

Raym11

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The 2 years of Mcdavid and Oilers topics have now been replaced by Matthews and Leafs. Which team is next? Ballin for Dahlin boys?
 

chaosrevolver

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I think some fans (I say some cause a lot of Leaf fans aren't like this) need to realize that while Matthews is tremendously talented and he's an incredible player, there are a whole host of guys (Crosby, Malkin, Stamkos, Kane, Tarasenko, etc.) who have proven their goal scoring talents over longer periods and have in most of those player's cases, done so with more success.

Matthews has hit 40 goals once...lets see him continue to do that for a few years and improve on it hitting 50-60 and then we can talk.

In fact, I still think Laine is the better pure scorer in that draft class even if I see Matthews as the better player going forward.
 
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Mats13

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I honestly never understood clicking on a thread just to bitch about the topic.

If it bothers you that much, just don't click on it.

As for the actual thread I'd say he's top 5 with Tarasenko, Stamkos, Kucherov and I'm sure I'm missing someone.
 
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