This is one of the best Art Ross/Rocket Richard races in a long time

[allan5oh]

Really? His team is stacked and he is not the best player in the league.

It's the most valuable to his team not MVP of the league. Scheifele has been out since December 27. Wheeler slotted to center as an experiment the next game. 12-2-3 since, second best record in the league just barely behind Boston.

If that's not most valuable to his team, I don't know what is.

 

[djpatm]

Gaudreau carrying his teams entire offense?

 

[daver]

I really hope McDavid wins it.

I have a few threads bookmarked from posters (the usual suspects) who bash McDavid constantly and have been saying all year how he won't come close to the art ross trophy.

That's quite the exciting life you lead.

 

[Coffey]

That's quite the exciting life you lead.

Gotta prove to people that they were wrong. That’s the internet man.

 

[McFlash97]

McDavid with another 2 point night last night. He is heating up. This may be over by game 65 let alone 80.

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

That's quite the exciting life you lead.

You still going on about how McDavid's season is disappointing? Sure were quiet after his 5 point night.

I mean, I can understand how @Frosty415 saving some of your outlandish posts about McDavid would be embarrassing for you though.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

You still going on about how McDavid's season is disappointing? Sure were quiet after his 5 point night.

I mean, I can understand how @Frosty415 saving some of your outlandish posts about McDavid would be embarrassing for you though.

At least it looks like it's sinking in how he's going to look by the end of the year

 

[daver]

You still going on about how McDavid's season is disappointing? Sure were quiet after his 5 point night.

I mean, I can understand how @Frosty415 saving some of your outlandish posts about McDavid would be embarrassing for you though.

Love to see those outlandish posts you are referring to. You McDavid fans are so freaking hypersensitive, pointing out McDavid's current scoring placing is considered outlandish.


TRIGGER ALERT!!!

McDavid is 3rd in scoring.

 

[Laineux]

If McDavid ends up 3rd in the scoring race that's quite a rare of an accomplishment for a 3rd year player

Not an awful lot of players in the history of the game can claim consecutive top three finishes in the scoring race. Let alone in their first two full years

Now if he happened to win the scoring race then he'd do something even more special and join the half a dozen of players in history to win it consecutively. At 21, in his first two seasons!

 

[daver]

If McDavid ends up 3rd in the scoring race that's quite a rare of an accomplishment for a 3rd year player

Not an awful lot of players in the history of the game can claim consecutive top three finishes in the scoring race. Let alone in their first two full years

Now if he happened to win the scoring race then he'd do something even more special and join the half a dozen of players in history to win it consecutively. At 21, in his first two seasons!

I assume you include Crosby in this group?

 

[Laineux]

I assume you include Crosby in this group?

Of course. The undisputable best player of his generation, who McDavid has been compared to a lot.

It's fair to say that if the expectation is that McDavid = Crosby, then it should be expected that he is top three in scoring when he's healthy. Crosby's average point finish in his healthy seasons is 2.14 and average points per game in seasons with at least half of the games is 1.78.

McDavid is on pace to finish 2nd in points and is 5th in points per game. That would make his average in points 1.5 and points per game 3.

 

[wintersej]

Agreed. It's nice to see so many of the guys who have been consistent top players the last decade, still be there today. Guess they all don't fall off a cliff at age 27. Getzlaf too would be there if not injured. Lots of the "old guard".

Seems like only Nick Backstrom is missing.

I really think we are seeing a lengthening of primes vs historical context with better nutrition workouts etc.

 

[BallardEra]

McDavid has games in hand too. A tie for Crosby in points won't land him the AR due to his low total in goals. He'd need to win it outright.

I don't see him winning it.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Gaudreau carrying his teams entire offense?

Story has been the same ever since he entered the league. 5th in ESP since he became a Flame despite playing for a fairly weak offensive team, forced to play large stretches with 4th line scrubs.

Fun fact. He's now passed Sean Monahan in career points despite playing 86 less games (an entire season) while playing alongside him almost the entire time. Not easy to do.

 

[BallardEra]

Story has been the same ever since he entered the league. 5th in ESP since he became a Flame despite playing for a fairly weak offensive team, forced to play large stretches with 4th line scrubs.

Fun fact. He's now passed Sean Monahan in career points despite playing 86 less games (an entire season) while playing alongside him almost the entire time. Not easy to do.

Two more points so far tonight.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Two more points so far tonight.

Yep. Kucherov got another one, too

Updated as of halfway through tonight:
Kucherov 67
Kessel 65
Gaudreau 64
McDavid 63

 

[Johnnybegood13]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t fix it because that would be an admission that he touched it and it kind of looked like a high stick to me

The puck defected UP under the bar, physics!!

 

[Tofveve]

Yep. Kucherov got another one, too

Updated as of halfway through tonight:
Kucherov 67
Kessel 65
Gaudreau 64
McDavid 63

Things are getting very interesting.

 

[Tage2Tuch]

Gaudreau carrying his teams entire offense?

No he has Monahan...if you want to see carrying a teams offense.

Eichel -53 pts


next best player



O'Reilly 37 pts. And they don't even play together like say a Draisaitl-McDavid (2 centres who SOMETIMES do)


Not too mention the team barely scores if he's not on the ice.

And on the lowest scoring team.

 

[L13]

I love Gaudreau as much as the next Flames fan, but claiming he's carrying the team's offence when he's on a line with Monahan and there's a whole other excellent line on the team (3M), albeit one plagued by low shooting percentages this season, is ridiculous.

 

[Duffalufagus]

It's also deep in the sense there are guys in the 40's and 50's that can still make big strides.

I would want to know where Jaden Schwartz, Brad Marchand and Ryan Getlzaf wuld be if they didn't get hurt. All are producing well over a point per game which suggests all three would be in the top ten right now if not top five.

You can't bet against Sid, McDavid, and Malkin, arguably the three best players in the NHL.

Stamkos, Tavares, Kucherov, Kopitar, Kessel, Wheeler (UNDERRATED) should all be close.

Johnny Gaudreau is insane but for some reason he's a guy I just ..I don't know, I think he goes cold for awhile but then I look and he's right there. HE should finish top 15-20 for sure.

Lock for top 10. Likely top 5

 

[Empoleon8771]

It would be really cool to see Malkin win the Art Ross again personally, it would be a nice extra middle finger to the people who left him off the top-100 player list.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Seguin with goals 27 and 28 tonight.

 

[Duffalufagus]

McDavid with another 2 point night last night. He is heating up. This may be over by game 65 let alone 80.

Tied with Gaudreau. Who is half the price.

I think Connor wins it this year. Johnny finishes top 5-8. But, at a 6 mil discount.

 

[Duffalufagus]

It would be really cool to see Malkin win the Art Ross again personally, it would be a nice extra middle finger to the people who left him off the top-100 player list.

Totally. Biggest snub ever. Embarrassing for the league, really.