Feniggles
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i have a hard time watching and following the sabres, unless you start winning cups 3000 miles away no one will care.
Leon Draisaitl the most underrated player in the NHL?
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i have a hard time watching and following the sabres, unless you start winning cups 3000 miles away no one will care.
West coast people don't need to race home. Even if i get home by 5:00pm after work, i can still catch the majority of the 2nd and all of the 3rd period for a game that started at 4pm pacific time.
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Feniggles
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Shows how good your player evaluations are when you try and claim st louis doesn't have a 1c and they win the cup and draisatl isn't a 1c and then he scores 50.
i don’t know how everyone else rates Draisaitl because I haven't asked everyone else yet. But Draisaitl is right there in the mix as part of the tier of superstars directly below the top 3 of Crosby, Ovechkin, and McDavid. He’s scary good.
Feniggles
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when robert thomas is 3c you're doing something right. i dunno like winning a cup
TomasHertlsRooster
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O’Reilly clearly proved me wrong, but he also played well above his career norm. Good for him.
Draisaitl scored 50 goals as a winger.
Oddbob
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No mainstream player or players are the most underrated in any sport! Not sure who it would be in the NHL, but top line players for darn sure wouldn't be it, as most underrated would be players who don't get recognition at all even when they are quite good. Plenty of people think Leon and similar players are very good players, whether or not everyone agrees.
Or maybe you're a state watcher and had no idea how good O'Reilly really was?
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Right, and East-coasters can still watch the majority of a game that starts @ 10PM. Sorry it's just a pet peeve.
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TomasHertlsRooster
Don’t say eye test when you mean points
It seems your posts in this thread have literally nothing to do with whether or not Draisaitl is underrated. Why not just message me if all you want to do is make personal attacks?
TheNumber4
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1. Yes, he's underrated. Because people think he's a product of McDavid still, when he's been in fact the better player of the two this year. As well, McDavid gets as much help from Drai as Drai gets from McDavid.
2. He's also underrated because he is literally and without hyperbole one of the best 2 way players in the game with an elite ability to intercept passing lanes and win loose pucks. This is something barely anyone outside of Edmonton know about his game, but soon and with time people will see this.
3. He's also underrated because he is never put in that elite McDavid/Eichel/Laine/Matthews category of young stars when in fact he's been better than most on this list.
4. While also being super underrated, he's also one of if not the best VALUE contract from an elite #1 center in the league.
2. He's also underrated because he is literally and without hyperbole one of the best 2 way players in the game with an elite ability to intercept passing lanes and win loose pucks. This is something barely anyone outside of Edmonton know about his game, but soon and with time people will see this.
3. He's also underrated because he is never put in that elite McDavid/Eichel/Laine/Matthews category of young stars when in fact he's been better than most on this list.
4. While also being super underrated, he's also one of if not the best VALUE contract from an elite #1 center in the league.
TheNumber4
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Yup pretty much.
Also, it's funny how they try to downplay Drai cause he gets help from McDavid when Matthews gets help from Nylander, Reilly, and Marner, Tavares on the PP. It's such a disingenuous and stupid argument you know they are just salty (still crying over the McDavid draft, cause the entitled deserve everything).
Kamiccolo
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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 ....
I mean.. It was an 8 point difference and Drai played on the wing of McDavid.
And? You were still wrong. Also, is Tavares chopped liver or isn't he some sort or really good 1C?
Kamiccolo
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He's no McDavid, that is for sure
So what you are saying is that Tavares cannot carry his own line and that Marner did all the heavy lifting? Or you just going to use the McDavid excuse anytime an Oiler out performs a Leaf because you are so insecure to admit that another Oiler might be better?
Kamiccolo
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I'm not insecure in the slightest. Drai is likely a better player if for no other reason than he is a better goal scorer and can play center. However, you made it seems in your post as if it was a completely out to lunch take when they were pretty close in scoring, and you are also ignoring the McDavid factor AND the PP time Mitch didn't get compared to Drai.
But it is what it is. I'm sure I could find lots of terrible Leaf takes from you with 5 seconds of searching, people are wrong sometimes.
Go ahead and search my post history. Outside a couple jokes I have been very complimentary towards Toronto players. I was even posting on the Leafs boards last season saying how I hoped Matthew's would have a good season so he and McDavid could have a friendly rivalry.
My issue with your post is that you could not simple admit you were wrong, instead you had to make excuses.
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Kamiccolo
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I didn't make any excuse. Stating some factors that impacted results is context. And I did say Drai was better.
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