Who's Been Better This Season: Elias Pettersson or Evgeni Malkin?

[DitchMarner]

Elias has better scoring stats and a much better plus/minus (for what that's worth). Has he been better than Malkin this season?

Disregard past history.

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[SillyRabbit]

Pettersson has been better so far this season.

Malkin is the type of player who can change that within one or two games though.

 

[DieTomi]

Malkin has been awful this year but could turn it around in a flash. Pettersson has been amazing this year but he could slow down. Anyone who followed him last year in Sweden, did he start to fade towards the end of season/playoffs?

 

[ESH]

Malkin has been awful this year but could turn it around in a flash. Pettersson has been amazing this year but he could slow down. Anyone who followed him last year in Sweden, did he start to fade towards the end of season/playoffs?

Malkin had 19 points in his first 10 games. Sure, he’s slowed down since, but that’s far from awful.

 

[Love]

Malkin has been awful this year but could turn it around in a flash. Pettersson has been amazing this year but he could slow down. Anyone who followed him last year in Sweden, did he start to fade towards the end of season/playoffs?

No he didn’t and I believe he played something like 86 or 89 games last year. He won SHL playoff MVP with 10g 9a in 13 games.

 

[tony d]

Went with Pettersson.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Sheesh! I feel dirty voting against Malkin in any poll. But I don’t think he’s been his usual dominant player this year. That said, if the question was who would you rather have going on your team going into the playoffs then Malkin ten times out of ten at this point in their careers.

 

[Midnight Judges]

Not to complain but IMO OPs should bring the data in these types of polls.

 

[psycat]

Malkin has been awful this year but could turn it around in a flash. Pettersson has been amazing this year but he could slow down. Anyone who followed him last year in Sweden, did he start to fade towards the end of season/playoffs?

On the contrary he progressed and became better as the season went on, won play-offs+MVP aswell. Who knows if that trend will continue in the big league(I would bet on it, maybe not winning MVP and such but think he will improve rather than decline).

 

[DitchMarner]

Not to complain but IMO OPs should bring the data in these types of polls.

You can just go on NHL.com... lol.

 

[Midnight Judges]

You can just go on NHL.com... lol.

And so could each of the 70 people who voted in the poll.

But wouldn't it be easier for just one guy to do it?

 

[DitchMarner]

And so could each of the 70 people who voted in the poll.

But wouldn't it be easier for just one guy to do it?

The stats change over time.

Right now...

Pettersson: 31 GP, 17 G, 18 A, 35 P, 1.13 PPG, +9

Malkin: 33 GP, 11 G, 25 A, 36 P, 1.09 PPG, -14.

 

[EK47]

Malkin has been awful this year but could turn it around in a flash. Pettersson has been amazing this year but he could slow down. Anyone who followed him last year in Sweden, did he start to fade towards the end of season/playoffs?

No, quite the opposite. The longer the season wore on the more comfortable he got and the more he was able to dominate. He had like an off game every once in a while spread out pretty evenly over the season, but the progression was very obvious.

 

[lawrence]

Malkin has been awful this year but could turn it around in a flash. Pettersson has been amazing this year but he could slow down. Anyone who followed him last year in Sweden, did he start to fade towards the end of season/playoffs?

The opposite happened. He just kept on getting better and better.

 

[Connor McConnor]

EP is the most exciting prospect I've seen since Ovi, Crosby, Malkin and McDavid. He's that good in my opinion.