Draisaitl was overpaid when he signed his deal factoring in comparables but I agree with you, who cares if he is underrated. He has been dominant to start the year...if he stays healthy, I think he eclipses his point total from last year.
Leon Draisaitl the most underrated player in the NHL?
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i think he's claiming drai alone is worth more then the entire devils roster in a trade.
And? How is this anything to do with him being underrated. The fact that the guy played only in one All-Star games, says a lot
Think he thought you would see Drai play verse your team and realize he is good. He did not take in to account you either did not watch after all or you can not judge talent
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This is the dilemma Matthews biggest supporters have been dealing with for the past 2 years.
I never said he isnt good? Hes a stud, I just think some views on how much of a stud he is ends up being ridiculous
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Hes definately the next Kopitar but better offensively a little worse defensively but they play a similar style.
He's only underrated by the absolute morons who think he's a product of McDavid. Everyone else realizes there are only a handful of players capable of 50g/100p.
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Oh don't do this! It is like you are praising ChiaGM. Let him wilt and rot into a faded memory....
We were devinely bestowed Leon. ChiaGM has nothing to do with it but a roll of the dice.
I’ll admit I should eat crow about draisaitl I’ve seen him do many good things without mcdavid this year.
As for your point about not being from he continent, saying Maybe if he was Canadian not sure about American he would get more praise. I think Canadian maybe But Not USA, because our captain Eichel STILL after 200 points in his last 190 games he barely gets headlines (many of them highlight reel) and he did this with a couple of serious injuries and as #1 center who before this year barely had any support, I mean he missed a Few weeks last year and still was the only player in the league in the top 25 in scoring to not have a single teammate hit 65 points. See what I mean? On the night he got five points against mcdavid s zero there wasn’t even a headline about it. The headline was Reinhart buries Oilers with game winner on a busy Saturday night. Even the other night he didn’t get a headline when he got four points the headline on tsn was Johanssons overtime goal buries habs. Yet when Matthews or Marner get two points or a winner that’s three of the top headlines.
Actually now that I say that if Drai was American he actually MAY afteralk get more headlines as you said because he plays for a Canadian team just like Matthews. I guess it’s when your American and playing for an American team you dont.
I think if he keeps this up he’s going to be respected by everyone but he’s never going to be out of mcdavids shadow, Malkin was generational and he’s sometimes an after thought due to Crosby. So that’s how it goes, I’ve seen draisaitl ranked ahead of jack in many lists by experts this year, I’d say he gets a good amount of praise but like I said with the Malkin thing. He’s never going to be the talk of the team with 97 there same way geno isn’t in Pittsburgh.
He’s a flames fan you can tell where that’s going.
It’s just going to open up the same mcdavid argument, but the player in his username is carried by Johnny hockey so
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Let's be somewhat humble Oilers fans!
Leon Draisaitl is a beast and we know it. Who cares if others think so as well?
Leon Draisaitl is a beast and we know it. Who cares if others think so as well?
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A lot of fellow Oiler fans will probably dislike me for this, but I agree with this assessment. I'm kind of getting tired of this narrative that he's as good as he is with McDavid, away from him. He quite clearly is not.
He is a very good player though, just not as good as he is with McDavid when he has to run things on his own. No one would like Drai to be that good away from McDavid more than I would, but it's just not the case. If it were our team would be in much better shape.
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