I’m really surprised to see Aho winning this
If it’s close you go with the centre, every time.Because it's center vs winger it must be an automatic for center. No matter what the matchup is.
I'm not totally convinced that Panarin is even best player on his team, while with Aho there's really no contest. Anyways, I do like Panarin too, so this was close, but my vote goes to Aho.
Artemi Panarin ez. Dude is a freak. Honestly probably have him as the best winger in the league rn now that I have looked further into it. Elite 5v5 offense, elite play driving that seems to be improving by the season, elite zone entries, best zone exit forward in the NHL (in tracked games from 16-17 to 17-18 he was 100th percentile in both zone exits/60 and zone exit percentage), major effect on linemates, basically the perfect winger.
What about the fact that Aho has 47 points in 44 games while the next 2 best scorers in Carolina have 36 and 26 points respectively? That said, at the moment i'd take Panarin, he's one of my favorite players in the league.Carolina has had the most overrated players on this forum for years now because of analytics.