You said clearly that people are grossly over rating Marner when I said I believe he is far more under rated and again like the last post I address this with you. You continue to under rate Marner.
Mathews played very little head to head against the other teams top lines. He drew top D pairing but not top lines as he got the other teams shut down forwards which generally are not high octane offensive units. Marner at Christmas got moved to our shut down line playing against the other teams best lines and not only did he contribute to shutting them down he play at over a ppg pace. In year one for Both Marner and Mathews they were both produce the same amount of points per game until Marner got hurt and sick with less TOI by the way, yet you say that Marner is most close to Nylander and not Mathews when that simply is not true. From Christmas on Marner was our best player and it was not even close.
Mathews and Marner will always be close In points and I fully expect that Marner will lead us in point as many or more seasons then Mathews.
Just an FYI When Marner had two goals I posted that I expected him to get 20 this year and said time after time that Marner is a franchise player and I was told I was wrong. He did get 20 goals as he has far to much skill and drive to not, Bozak and JVR could not take advantage of the opportunities that Marner presented them. So he was move to a line with tougher zone starts and against top lines and he dominated. More skill to work with and an increase in ice time and he flourished.
1st bold: no that is not what i said. I said "gross, and the overrating of marner..." im not sure what is so hard for you to understand here. I did not say marner is grossly overrated, i said the overrating of him continues. Ok ill put it another way "YUK, and the overrating of marner..." is that better?.
2nd bold: Did matthews not get hurt this year and whilst playing not got PPG which is, i think, better than 69 points in 82 games could be wrong here.
edit: i dont underrate marner at all. He is a fantastic player i love him on the leafs. What he isnt though is better than Matthews. 40 goal rookie season and on pace again for it. He scored 1 less goal in year one than marner has in 2 seasons.
I could be wrong but werent you one of the posters saying Ehlers is better than Nylander due to goals?
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