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“It’s pretty cool,” said Kassian. “Connor McDavid has four points at the end of the first period. Ends up with six. Leon, the Human Apple Tree, five assists. It’s pretty impressive
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Player Discussion Leon Draisaitl - 2019 All-Star
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I like Kass nickname vetter!!!
“It’s pretty cool,” said Kassian. “Connor McDavid has four points at the end of the first period. Ends up with six. Leon, the Human Apple Tree, five assists. It’s pretty impressive
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Thinking of how lucky we are in
Edmonton to have both Leon and Connor on this team - with great contracts to boot!
Friedman described it this way: "Drai is the best player in the NHL (thus world) and Connor is the most exciting player in the NHL (world)".....Yup, that works for me.
Edmonton to have both Leon and Connor on this team - with great contracts to boot!
Friedman described it this way: "Drai is the best player in the NHL (thus world) and Connor is the most exciting player in the NHL (world)".....Yup, that works for me.
iirc played pretty ok that one time he was in the SCP.
Hard to imagine the now 24 year old Drai growing the beard and entering SCP beast modus. I just think of this, only with more points and more winning.
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The More I see Leon protect the puck the more it reminds me of Jagr
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I couldn't resist quoting a 5 year old post. Go check out that thread for the lols. It shows how little we can predict, and how people should relax when GMs go off the board. (Broberg?)
Also, Draisaitl is a monster. He's surpassed the expectations of even his top supporters on HF during draft time.
The Athletic has a nice article about Leon. For those of you who subscribe.
'He's special': The people who know him best tell the story...
'He's special': The people who know him best tell the story...
OfCorsiDid
54 goals? Must've been the money!
Bumping this after a very strong game from Leon.
So since he’s now at 85 points (on pace for 127) and 4 points ahead of his nearest competitor (obviously McDavid). If Drai is able to win the Art Ross and the Oilers make the playoffs, does he have a chance to win the Hart?
Personally, I think he should, but there’s a pervasive perception around the league that he’s still a product of McDavid and plays second fiddle to him on the team. I can easily see a guy like Wyshynski or some Toronto homer not voting for him simply because of this.
So since he’s now at 85 points (on pace for 127) and 4 points ahead of his nearest competitor (obviously McDavid). If Drai is able to win the Art Ross and the Oilers make the playoffs, does he have a chance to win the Hart?
Personally, I think he should, but there’s a pervasive perception around the league that he’s still a product of McDavid and plays second fiddle to him on the team. I can easily see a guy like Wyshynski or some Toronto homer not voting for him simply because of this.
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I can see Eastern media voting for McDavid over Draisaitl and the votes getting split. MacKinnon or Matthews or some shit might win. I doubt people will want to put Oilers in the 1 and 2 spots on their ballot.
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OfCorsiDid
54 goals? Must've been the money!
Eh it’s probably the standard shithousery that exists in any given NHL game.
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The media will spin it whatever way they want. I've literally heard them base winning off vastly different/opposite criteria from year to year.
In my opinion, the most valuable player award, which I've heard most often described as the player most valuable to their team and has the more points, should not go to McDavid or Draisaitl. Because they are both extremely valuable and it's hard to say which is more valuable while McKinnon at the moment is clearly the best on his team and right up there with those two.
McDavid and Draisaitl should not win this year, McDavid could/should have won it the year Hall did. I see that Hall was probably more valuable to his team but to be 15 points behind the leader McDavid that's a bit too much. The "they made the playoffs" bs was just an excuse.
Being technical with the definition a goalie should win it almost every year.
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If McDavid went down this team would crumble into the Stone Age. He is absolutely the “most valuable player” to his team.
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While I agree losing McDavid would suck and likely wreck this team technically it should not.
There are plenty of examples of teams decimated by injury that persevere.
Pittsburgh this year for example.
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Giving it back to the Predators after they were whining the first penalty he drew was a dive. It clearly wasn't, Tinordi stuck his stick underneath Draisaitl's skates and tripped him.
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I think for Leon to win the trio of awards he would have to go on a monster run. Drag/Push the Oilers into the playoffs/top of Division. Outscore McDavid by at least 8. Score 50 + goals. Get over 130 points. Be a beast in the playoffs again.
It's not fair but Draisaitl will always need to push a bit harder and do a bit better than the typical "best of the best".
Heck, Eastern media is probably still upset that Draisaitl has outplayed Sam Gilmour Bennet or still thinks he is a product of McDavid.
The funny thing is. In terms of two way play both Draisaitl and McDavid are extremely inconsistent. At times amazing, at worst a disaster, most times less than ideal. Those two can still rack up points and play stellar 2 way hockey. I've seen them do it for good stretches. They take that next step and they break the league.
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OfCorsiDid
54 goals? Must've been the money!
I wonder what he's looking at, because whatever it is, he's completely bewildered by it.
OfCorsiDid
54 goals? Must've been the money!
In other news:
Eastern media dickhead is sarcastic about a legitimate hart contender from a team he hates.
Eastern media dickhead is sarcastic about a legitimate hart contender from a team he hates.
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Huge first game without Connor in the lineup. If he keeps us in the playoff hunt while Connor is out and wins the Art Ross, I don't see how he isn't this year's Hart winner.
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Eastern Media.
Listen to some of these jokers. They fundamentally believe Draisaitl is not a top ten player let alone THE best.
To start hockey central today they briefly mention that starting today they might have to start considering Draisaitl for the Hart. No one says a thing pro or con on the panel and they move on to ramble on and on about the Leafs.
Just clueless.
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