And excluding his good playoff series vs Washington.
The blatant cherry-picking looks truly pathetic. Once Matthews destroys Eichel production-wise yet again (like he's done literally every year of their careers) I really wonder if these futile attempts to try and keep Eichel relevant in a comparison with Matthews are even going to continue. Eichel's biggest advantage over Matthews (PP time) will no longer be an advantage, last night gave us a peak of how insanely dangerous that Toronto PP will be. We could be seeing Matthews outscore Eichel by 20+ points, he already out-PPG'ed Eichel last year with pathetic ice-time/PP time, could get real ugly this year with Matthews racking up some PP points. Not even worried about even strength, Matthews has proven to be so much better than Eichel at even strength it's not even funny.
Blatant cherry picking? You mean by holy mackinaw for doing the last two seasons and not including assists and changing PPG to a single year because he knows Eichel is ahead in both categories yet he includes bogus items like plus minus, when your team has a goalie lol. I’ll lay out all the numbers though, no cherry picking involved here. But if you complain about the length that’s not my problem. I’ll look at this sort of like a reference point.
We all know Matthews is elite at even strength, top 5 in goals all that, but this he’s so much better and it isn’t funny at even strength makes me think you confused Eichel for Laine. Eichel doesent rely on the power play and is a terrific even strength point producer as he got 44 of his 64 points at even strength and only 3 of his 25 goals were scored on the powerplay. So this highly exaggerated “destroying him at even strength that it’s even funny” is the same kind of ridiculous as suggesting ROR and Mitch Marner are BOTH better then Eichel. lol Eichel missed twenty percent of the year and still managed to outscore the man who lost his love for the game. (ROR)
The best part about your post outside the arrogance is the ignorance. You know so little about how crafty and dynamic a forward Jack Eichel is and shows badly each time you try and make your point sound better with terms like “not close, not funny, destroy”, all of these words are in turn both comical and ironic because they’re all not true. You say Matthews has destroyed eichel production wise every year of there careers ...well that’s news to me. Not every one of the U18 yeArs as posted before, and Jack had a higher PPG in the 16-17 season (if your saying but Matthews was a rookie don’t worry I’ll get to that below) that’s not what I’m saying anyway here. I’m just pointing out in the 16-17 season Eichel had a higher PPG average then Matthews had over Eichel the very next season in 17-18. As for last year when Matthews had a higher PPG by 0.07 (which is actually 0.03 LESS of an advantage then Jack had on Auston the year prior) even though he was still outscored last year by eichel who played five more games. It’s just funny because you said in every season he has outproduced him, (wrong) and in every season you actually said destroyed (wrong again) so you were wrong twice in the same sentence. Congrats.
Even if you want to compare rookie years to rookie and sophomore to sophomore, Matthews sophomore season is literally just SIX points better and Matthews played an extra game.Eichel played 61 games in his 2nd year, finished 11th in points per game, outscored the likes of mackinnon who played a whole season and he did this without playing his first game until December that year and put up 57 pts in those 61 games while leading his team to the best powerplay that season. Matthews as you know just put up 63 in 62. So six more points in an extra game for Matthews. Yeah just DESTROYED his production there. Or maybe you were talking about the rookie season since tha is your best argument. Let’s look at that.
It’s true Matthews had a better rookie year. He again had a great linemate in Nylander, not sure if he had 50 or 60 that year but it helped assist Auston to his 69 pts, while with the help of a great starting goalie, Marner joining the team also in that same year (he’s better then Eichel right?) That MUST have been a huge assist to Matthews improving his team from 30th to 16th if he’s better then a Jack Eichel. I wish we had Marner as well if I’m being honest I could see him and JT getting near 90ish. And I actually do though but Jack improved his team from dead last also to 22nd, a mere 6 slots lower then AM did with a lot less help, and put up his lowest total 56 pts in his rookie year but he didn’t have that same supporting cast AM did and there biggest yearly difference was that of a mere total of j13 pts with one more game played for Matthews ....when comparing rookie totals. I don’t know about you but again that’s not destroyed. It’s a lot better though, absolutely.
However when you consider They both have produced this similar in the last 128 games which is the length of eichels last two seasons. The pts are as follows.
Eichel 121
Matthews 120
So you think Eichel is just going to magically fall off a cliff after producing a 0.95 PPG with worse linemates (whilst still feeling lingering effects of injury lin both of the last two years?) now that here’s a year older? Please. That’s just going to stop happening because IPS wants him to stop producing the same ammof now that he’s upgrading his linemates, has guys like Dahlin in the back end and Skinner In a Contract year? Dahlin and the likes will open up room for him out there on special teams and at even strength. I know Matthews will get easier match ups to his benefit because the leafs can really spread it around. Thats why my answer here was it depended on how Babcock decided to do this. Even up until now though Eichel has always faced the toughest Competiton and produced just fine, even more then Matthews has since Matthews entered the league. (0.94 > 0.88)
So going over all of it, in every which way there is absolutely no evidence from a point production where Matthews has ever destroyed Eichel. I even showed you above for your benefit rookie to rookie, sophomore to sophomore and both guys PPG head to head and eichel had the better PPG advantage in the first year in PPG, (16-17)) by 0.10 then Matthews lead in PPG the 2nd year head to head by 0.07 in that same year, and both guys have total pts higher in separate years, It’s 1-1 there too in both categorgies. However it is 2-0 Matthews when comparing rookie to rookie and sophomore to sophomore as I did above. If you think the goals thing is where he’s destroyed, well Eichel isn’t even a sniper and has never put up less fthen 24 when 2/3rds of his career he’s been out for a quarter season. Matthews has yet to hit thirty assists though, (on a top scoring team) something Eichel has done three different times despite having to pass the puck to guys who only could put it in 173 times last year. Pretty insane.
Going through all the numbers wasnt just for you it’s so I can come back and look at this now and help others who weren’t aware. I’ll probably hear about cherry picking or how it’s a so long and a novel. Even though it completely contradicts all of your ludicrous notions.
I see all these numbers and I don’t see any destroying going on. The only thing being destroyed is your gross hyperbole.
