RNH stuck behind McDavid in offensive situations? You do realize that as Sidney the Kidney just told you, he scored 40 of his 69 points with Connor McDavid on the ice?
There's another team you don't seem to know much about. RNH receives a massive benefit from playing with McDavid on the PP.
Yes, but you asked other fans on here, which showed that you weren't aware that pretty much nobody else would come even close to supporting your opinion of RNH>Hertl. While ones' knowledge of HFBoards isn't a pre-requisite for having the knowledge to write something like this, I think anybody who follows hockey closely and has a good grip on the league will be able to tell you that almost every fan would prefer Hertl to RNH. It's quite telling that your only argument is that GMs would prefer RNH; something that is completely an assumption of yours without any evidence, and something that we can't possibly quantify. There are mounds of evidence suggesting that Hertl is a superior player to RNH and that he has been for years now, and the consensus opinion of fans around the league does reflect that Hertl>RNH.
The fact that you don't support the opinion that Hertl>RNH, and that you haven't provided any argument against it besides "I think GMs would agree with me" and "RNH is stuck behind McDavid" just shows, once again, that you were never fit to write an article like this. At this stage of his career, a player like Hertl is known around the league based on his playoff performances on a contending team, based on his big goals, and based on high profile moments like guaranteeing victory against Vegas in game 6 and then scoring the game winning goal in 2OT on the PK in that game 6. He scored 6 goals and 9 points in 10 games in last year's playoffs, he scored 35 goals and 74 points in 77 games this season, and he scored 10 goals and 15 points in 19 playoff games this season. If you're counting, that's 51 goals and 98 points in his last 106 games.
Tomas Hertl is not some obscure 3rd line player who had a decent season playing for a non-playoff team in a small market. Again, I am saying this because it needs to be emphasized: this is a player that is known around the league. The fact that you knew so little about Tomas Hertl that you suggested that he might be bumped to the right wing next to Dylan Gambrell, and that you suggested on here that RNH is ahead of Hertl and that GMs might agree with you, shows that you do not have the knowledge and credibility required for anybody to take this seriously. Again, I do not care that it is Hertl in particular; it could have been anybody in the NHL from any team. I am zeroing in on Hertl in particular because I know a lot about this player, and so I know how little somebody must know about Hertl and his team in order to suggest that Hertl could be the 2nd line RW, and that RNH is superior to him.
But again, I realize that this level of ignorance is not just limited to players on my team. You showed your ignorance on other players around the league when you said that RNH is stuck behind Connor McDavid. I am not an Oilers fan, but I could have told you off the top of my head that 40 of RNH's 69 points came with Connor McDavid on the ice. You are comparing nothing but raw point totals while ignoring that RNH is in a far more favorable position to put up points than Hertl. He played 249:58 on the power play with McDavid, in a role where he was the tertiary threat behind McDavid and Draisaitl, and somebody is going to rack up secondary assists in that situation. It is no shock that 13 of RNH's 25 PP points in those minutes with McDavid were secondary assists. By comparison, Hertl played 221 TOTAL minutes on the power play, and recorded 2 TOTAL secondary assists on the power play, because Hertl plays a net-front trigger role on the PP which doesn't translate to secondary assists the way that RNH's role. Hertl's primary scoring rate on the power play was actually higher than RNH's, despite the fact that Edmonton's PP scored goals at a higher rate with McDavid on the ice (9.43 PPG/60) to SJ's PP with Hertl on the ice (9.2 PPG/60).
I don't know what else to say. I probably shouldn't have even gone as far in-depth as I did on this one, because I really didn't need to. It's clear as day that Hertl is better than RNH, and it's clear as day that your logic (Hertl in a better opportunity than RNH, who is "behind" McDavid) that leads you to conclude RNH is superior is extremely flawed, and not based on a good in-depth analysis of these players. Being that these players are both 1st round draft picks, 25/26 years old, centers, who have played hundreds of games in this league, these are players that you should know a lot about if you want to go about ranking the forwards on each team in the NHL. Maybe you don't know about a couple of fourth liners on each team, and that's forgivable and doesn't automatically wreck your credibility. But this? Hertl on the Sharks' 2nd line RW, RNH>Hertl and most GMs would agree with this, RNH buried behind McDavid...all of these statements just show that you do not know your stuff well enough to write a piece like this. You need to do a lot more research next time you do this.