nbwingsfan
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I wouldn't expect a Leafs fan to understand the importance of two-way play.
come on... no amount of defense makes up for a 37pt and 16g difference in just 53 games...
I wouldn't expect a Leafs fan to understand the importance of two-way play.
You realize Mackinnon has more points than Panarin... And 2nd place on the Avs has less points than Strome right? If this is the reason you think Panarin is better, than Mackinnon certainly fills the same void. And before you counter with "Mack has Rantanen he was just hurt" let me remind you that Panarin has Zibanejad, he was just hurt. And this year alone, Zibs has been better when healthy than Rantanen by a decent bit.
For me:
McDavid
MacKinnon
Panarin?
Your argument would be stronger if you knew how to spellDrisaitel learned how to do that from Maklin.
I don't know about right now but when the playoffs start I'll take McDavid, MacK, Crosby, Malkin, OV, Kane ahead of him for sure. Can probably throw in Kucherov, Panarin, Eichel.
Your argument would be stronger if you knew how to spell
McDavid takes all the defending so Drisaitel gets easy minutes
Based on what exactly?
Last time Drai was in the playoffs he was a leading scorer for at least a week after the Oil had been eliminated. He was a physical beast and outperformed McD in two hard fought series (vs SJ & Ana).
The aves have Rantanen on the team, just in case you didn't know that. There was an argument whole last year until this year's injury about him being the best player in the team.
Based on him being better (McDavid). Based on them still playing at a high level combined with their playoff history (Crosby, Malkin, OV, Kane, MacK, Kucherov). Based on them producing monster numbers carrying their own lines (Eichel, Panarin).
Those playoffs get so overrated. He had 3pts in the SJ series so I don't know how he outperformed McDavid there. But overall he had 16pts in 13 GP which looks great but now consider 9pts came in 2 games (including 5 in a blowout win) so that means the rest of his playoffs was 7pts in 11 GP. Not bad, but nothing great either. Definitely nothing that's going to push him in front of proven playoff performers who are still playing at a high level.
If I had to pick today I would take these guys over him:
McDavid
MacKinnon
Eichel
Kane
Ovechkin
Pastranak
Panarin
Kucherov
Matthews
Crosby
Would think long and hard about these, so coin flip;
Huberdeau
Marchand
Stamkos
Rantanen
Scheifele
Pettersson
Barkov
Marner
Barzal
Malkin
I need to see him without McDavid to really push him up with the big boys.
PAnarin and Jack don’t carry their lines. They carry their teams.
Based on him being better (McDavid). Based on them still playing at a high level combined with their playoff history (Crosby, Malkin, OV, Kane, MacK, Kucherov). Based on them producing monster numbers carrying their own lines (Eichel, Panarin).
Those playoffs get so overrated. He had 3pts in the SJ series so I don't know how he outperformed McDavid there. But overall he had 16pts in 13 GP which looks great but now consider 9pts came in 2 games (including 5 in a blowout win) so that means the rest of his playoffs was 7pts in 11 GP. Not bad, but nothing great either. Definitely nothing that's going to push him in front of proven playoff performers who are still playing at a high level.