Leon Draisaitl the most underrated player in the NHL?
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Niten Ichi Ryu
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He's arguably the Oilers MVP so far this season. Averaging 25:06 per game, he has the most TOI by any forward in the league so far (13th overall, with #1-12 all being defenseman). He takes most of the face-offs and is the most used Oiler forward on the PK. If you watched him play the last 4 games, you would see a complete all-around forward that works hard in all 3 zones. If he continues at this rate, he should be a serious consideration for the Selke
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The guy scored 50 goals and 100+ points, hes better than all the Leafs players. Truly Malkin to Crosby situation here.
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Wholly shit. So you mean 2-1=1. You must be some divine entity...amazing analogy. This theory is universal.
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Mcdavid is good enough to revive players from the dead.
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Or get points even when playing with an actual corpse.
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I just don’t think it’s possible for a player on a Canadian team who hit 100 pts and plays with the best player in the league to be the most underrated. I just think there’s way too many eyes. You could make the argument he’s under appreciated but underrated?
Sure you remove mcdavid from draisaitl and mcdavids would drop, that’s true.
However if you remove draisaitl from mcdavid it is Leon’s numbers that would fall significantly more. And that’s been proven.
I’m not so sure how much mcdavids would, I mean it surely would because as you said great players help great players and I know I bring up Eichel a lot and I don’t want to talk about him dither this hen this but I have to for this example, he still produced when he played with girgesens And Rodrigues both at times on the first line at a very good clip. Superstars can produce no matter what but obviously they produce more with other great players.
Sure you remove mcdavid from draisaitl and mcdavids would drop, that’s true.
However if you remove draisaitl from mcdavid it is Leon’s numbers that would fall significantly more. And that’s been proven.
I’m not so sure how much mcdavids would, I mean it surely would because as you said great players help great players and I know I bring up Eichel a lot and I don’t want to talk about him dither this hen this but I have to for this example, he still produced when he played with girgesens And Rodrigues both at times on the first line at a very good clip. Superstars can produce no matter what but obviously they produce more with other great players.
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Why doesn't this go both ways? EST games start 4:00PM on the west coast. Are people like racing home from work to watch east coast games?
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They see enough of the Eastern teams while TSN and Sportsnet are running Leafs highlights 24/7.
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East coast cities are renowned for going to bed early.They see enough of the Eastern teams while TSN and Sportsnet are running Leafs highlights 24/7.
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Well, for what it's worth, I remember this conversation coming up in McDavid's second year and when extrapolated out, McDavid's 82 game point pace without Draisaitl would have been 97.
He finished with 100 that season.
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Kuznetsov. Tarasenko earlier.
Pastarnak only signed for 6 years but do you really think if he signed for 2 more years BOS would have given him $28M more. Doubtful. Drai was overpaid when he signed but thats not his fault.
Nah... just not appreciated as much.
Underrated is Kopitar back in his rookie season. I would have given him the Calder over Malkin. You just knew he’d be something special but nobody watched the Kings back then.... they were baaad.
Then Barkov until a few years ago.
Now? I feel it’s Wheeler or Schiefele or Mark Stone.
Underrated is Kopitar back in his rookie season. I would have given him the Calder over Malkin. You just knew he’d be something special but nobody watched the Kings back then.... they were baaad.
Then Barkov until a few years ago.
Now? I feel it’s Wheeler or Schiefele or Mark Stone.
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Wishing the guy you bet against took this. You got off lucky. Draisaitl easily finished ahead of Marner and popped in 50 too. Marner will outscore him ....
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Tarasenko was signed two years earlier which makes a big difference. He's also not a Center and neither is Pastrnak. Pasta may make up that difference in the first two years of his next contract, he'll certainly get a ton more than 8.5. I bet Boston will wish they had given him more for an 8 year term when that day comes.
Kuznetsov is the only true comparable and since Leon had a better season and playoffs, that's the difference in $$$.
I still feel Draisaitl is still under rated but not nearly as much as before. Out of your list I feel like Mark Stone is overrated by a little bit. I cannot speak for this year as there are only a few games but last year there were some crazy polls/comments.
You like to throw this "stanley cup 1c" around a lot but how do you even define it? You claimed st louis center depth is not nearly good enough to be considered contenders yet they won the cup. Now youre claiming draisatl isn't a 1c after he scored 50 goals?
But burns and karlsoon are top 5 d. Your posts are a joke.
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Don’t say eye test when you mean points
The post you quoted was from 2018. You should probably learn to read before telling other people that their posts are a joke.
O’Reilly’s 2018-2019 season was far and away better than anything Draisaitl has done away from McDavid.
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