Patrick Marleau Or Phil Kessel?

[Spirit of 67]

Exactly, he’s a playmaker!

The whole Kessel would’ve scored 50 goals if he played with X is BS though

Yep.

He's more dangerous with the puck on his stick because he can score on his shot but also, is a fantastic disher.

 

[Adele Dazeem]

Career comparison vs. skill; Kessel has Cups

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Neither of them are a playmaker on Thornton's level.

Thornton made Jonathan Cheechoo a 56 goal Rocket winner. Kessel scored 37 twice with Tyler Bozak as his center. Prime Kessel stapled to Thornton's hip scores 50 and wins Rockets

Crosby is not a playmaker on Thornton’s level? If he isn’t, it’s by a pretty slim margin.

Look man, it’s not because Kessel scored 37 with Bozak that he would score 50 with Thornton, that’s not how it works. He never scored over 34 goals with the Penguins, but he racked up 58 assists on a line with Malkin.

Kessel is a playmaker first, the bulk of his production was always in assists, not goals.

 

[Midnight Judges]

Put Kessel next to prime Thornton and he's scoring 50 a year and probably wins some Rockets from Ovechkin.

That's precisely what people predicted would happen when Kessel went to Pittsburgh.

 

[Midnight Judges]

The Cheechoo thing gets massively overplayed.

He was a very good player who got injured (otherwise his scoring may have sustained a bit better instead of him falling off a cliff despite still being on Thornton's team). He scored 28 goals playing third line minutes prior to Thornton arriving. 9 goals the season before. Without Thornton he was already on a significant upward trajectory.