Name the centres better than Eichel today

[Chef de Cuisine]

Inspired by TSN. Assuming full health and disregarding age and cap hits, name the centres you think are better than Eichel right now.

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[AvroArrow]

McDavid, Matthews, Draisaitl, Mackinnon, Crosby, Barkov, Aho, Kopitar, Point, Scheifele, Bergeron, O'Rielly. He's offensively better than some of those guys, but his defensive flaws bring his overall down for me. If he can get his compete level up and his 200ft game maybe he'll be a top 10 or even top 5 very soon, as of today I would say those guys are all better overall players than him.

 

[awegrzyn]

^ Few of those guys you list are not Canadian. OP is explicitly asking for "centres".

 

[IranCondraAffair]

Cap hits and contract are a non issue? Okay
Age is irrelevant? Okay

What about attitude and injury history?

1. McDavid
2. Mackinnon
3. Crosby
4. Matthews
5. Draisaitl
6. Barzal
7. Aho
8. Bergeron
9. Scheifele
10. Barkov

I'd probably put him around here.

12. Point
13. Kopitar
14. Zibanejad
15. Stamkos
16. Malkin
17. ROR
18. Tavares
19. Petterson
Etc..

 

[Panda Bear]

^ Few of those guys you list are not Canadian. OP is explicitly asking for "centres".

next

 

[Black Kevin]

McDavid, MacKinnon, Crosby. Eichel is fourth on my list.

 

[The90]

McDavid, MacKinnon, Crosby. Eichel is fourth on my list.

Seems awful bait-like

 

[Panda Bear]

McDavid, MacKinnon, Matthews, Crosby, Draisaitl, Barkov.

I'm not even sure if he's behind four of those players. I am sure, though, that Buffalo is a morale-sapping trainwreck.

Eichel's output relative to his teammates is absurd. McDavid and Draisaitl* are the only players that I can think of offhand who are comparable in that regard.

* Yes, I am aware they are teammates. Treat them as a set.

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

McDavid, MacKinnon, Draisaitl, Barkov, Crosby, Matthews, Aho.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Seems awful bait-like

Yeah it's ok to think Eichel might be better going forward but after the two seasons they both had, it's not really a take in reality at this point to rank Eichel over Matthews. And I know Eichel played hurt but so did Matthews for about a month.

 

[Black Kevin]

Seems awful bait-like

Who would you realistically take over him? Mc, Mack, Sid, and...?

 

[DontLaughAtThat]

Who would you realistically take over him? Mc, Mack, Sid, and...?

Drai and Barkov at minimum

 

[FLpanthers16]

Cap hits and contract are a non issue? Okay
Age is irrelevant? Okay

What about attitude and injury history?

1. McDavid
2. Mackinnon
3. Crosby
4. Matthews
5. Draisaitl
6. Barzal
7. Aho
8. Bergeron
9. Scheifele
10. Barkov

I'd probably put him around here.

12. Point
13. Kopitar
14. Zibanejad
15. Stamkos
16. Malkin
17. ROR
18. Tavares
19. Petterson
Etc..

Barzal, aho and Scheifele over Barkov come on now, have a hard time putting Bergy over him at this point as well.

 

[karnige]

hes a good player who sadly is on a horrible team and had injuries

 

[JT Kreider]

Cap hits and contract are a non issue? Okay
Age is irrelevant? Okay

What about attitude and injury history?

1. McDavid
2. Mackinnon
3. Crosby
4. Matthews
5. Draisaitl
6. Barzal
7. Aho
8. Bergeron
9. Scheifele
10. Barkov

I'd probably put him around here.

12. Point
13. Kopitar
14. Zibanejad
15. Stamkos
16. Malkin
17. ROR
18. Tavares
19. Petterson
Etc..

Barzal ahead of Barkov and Eichel come the f on

 

[Rokker]

McDavid, Matthews, Barkov, Draisaitl, Mackinnon.

Hard to disregard age here, but as far as overall performance Crosby, Kopitar, O'Reilly, Aho.

Thats about it for me

 

[KlefDown]

A lot of recency bias here

Guys like Aho, Barzal, Point, Schiefele etc are elite but they are not better than a healthy Jack Eichel

I would say Eichel is definitely top 10 and in the 7-8 range

 

[Arizonan God]

Healthy Eichel on a not terrible team would only safely be behind McDavid, Drai, and Mack. I'd also rank Matthews and Barkov ahead of him, but the gap isn't big.

 

[The90]

Who would you realistically take over him? Mc, Mack, Sid, and...?

Oh yeah. Totally. Can’t think of anyone else. Bait harder.

 

[OKR]

McDavid
Mackinnon
Matthews
Barkov
Eichel

Honestly, Eichel getting to play with proper wingers could really see him surge even further up the list, his stats compared to closest teammates are absurd. Was near ppg this season with 75% of his body injured and you could really see it.

 

[Muikea Bulju]

For the playoffs, or next season, I'd take these guys before Eichel:

1. McDavid
2. MacKinnon
3. Barkov
4. Draisaitl
5. Aho
6. Scheifele
7. Stamkos
8. Barzal
9. Malkin
10. Zibanejad
11. Point
12. O'Reilly
13. Bergeron
14. Miller
15. Kopitar
16. Bäckström
17. Seguin
18. Kuznetsov
19. Krejci
20. Couturier
21. Horvat
22. Suzuki

I have absolutely zero confidence in Eichel's ability to play winning hockey. Being an all-around-problem just oooozes from everything he does.

 

[Byron Bitz]

I haven’t figured out yet how far this season should drop him down my list yet. For now I’ll just pretend this season never happened and say...McDavid, Matthews, Mackinnon, Draisaitl, Bergeron, Barkov, Crosby

 

[CanadienShark]

^ Few of those guys you list are not Canadian. OP is explicitly asking for "centres".

Took me a minute.

 

[traffic cone]

A lot of recency bias here

Guys like Aho, Barzal, Point, Schiefele etc are elite but they are not better than a healthy Jack Eichel

I would say Eichel is definitely top 10 and in the 7-8 range

He’s been elite for a while now. Kills penalties. Wins games.

 

[CanadienShark]

Who would you realistically take over him? Mc, Mack, Sid, and...?

Draisaitl for sure. Matthews probably after this season. Barkov potentially.