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Top 4 Under 24 - Who has the best young core in the league

Top 4 Under 24?

  • TOR

    Votes: 19 70.4%

  • EDM

    Votes: 6 22.2%

  • WPG

    Votes: 1 3.7%

  • ARZ

    Votes: 1 3.7%

  • TAM

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Others ...

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    27
hockeylover said:
Think we have Winnipeg cleanly beat and our 4 might be better than Edmonton's but if you wanna say they take it because McDavid I'm perfectly fine with that.

Regardless, pretty clear how good the Big 3 is for us.
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Well, Scheifele is looking pretty good too if we're counting guys with 250+ games in the NHL, but yeah, certainly your 3 kids are having pretty impressive starts so far.
 
Kritter said:
Rookie Scoring 2016 (to date)


1. Patrik Laine WPG R 25 13 6 19
2. Mitchell Marner TOR C 22 7 12 19
3. Auston Matthews TOR C 22 10 8 18
4. William Nylander TOR C 21 6 10 16

Yea. Game, set and match?

Where is the argument? And Laine with 3 more games played.
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a) sample size
b) not the argument
 
Just a note, these are the changes I'd make to the Top-4's listed at the beginning of this thread:

TOR - Matthews, Marner, W.Nylander, Rielly
WPG - Laine, Scheifele, Ehlers, Trouba
EDM - McDavid, Draisaitl, Puljujarvi, Nurse
PHX - Domi, Strome, Dvorak, Chychrun
BUF - Eichel, Ristolainen, Reinhart, A.Nylander
TAM - Kucherov, Drouin, Namestnikov, Vasilevskiy

Out of all those groups, I think Toronto & Winnipeg's groups are flat-out awesome. You could say the same about Edmonton, based purely on McDavid, and on Draisatl as well, who looks like at the very least he's going to be a big, solid #2 center behind McDavid.

For Edmonton vs. Toronto, McDavid > Matthews, but our next three beats the hell out of their next three, and I don't think the gap between Matthews & McDavid is wide enough to make the difference. For Winnipeg vs. Toronto, Ehlers & Nylander are basically a wash, but the Leafs have the advantage in every other matchup, IMO.

After those three, everyone else is a fairly significant step down. Ristolainen might actually be better than Rielly, but Matthews is better than, or at least equal to Eichel, and Reinhart and little Nylander just aren't on the same level as big Nylander & Marner. For Arizona, all four guys are nice players, but none of them are franchise cornerstones except for maybe Strome, but the jury's still out on him.

Overall, I think I'd go:

1) Toronto
2) Edmonton
3) Winnipeg
4) Tampa
5) Buffalo
6) Arizona
 
More I think about it, I really don't think I could pass on McDavid....a talent like that really is a virtual guarantee you'll win a cup.
 
Not included in this poll but I really like our secondary prospect depth. I think that's a huge difference. Cheap, tradable talent.
 
Montana said:
More I think about it, I really don't think I could pass on McDavid....a talent like that really is a virtual guarantee you'll win a cup.
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Edmonton will find a way. It was a good start by trading Hall.

Could you imagine the top 4 of

McDavid
Hall
Draisaitl
RNH
 
LeafGm said:
Just a note, these are the changes I'd make to the Top-4's listed at the beginning of this thread:

TOR - Matthews, Marner, W.Nylander, Rielly
WPG - Laine, Scheifele, Ehlers, Trouba
EDM - McDavid, Draisaitl, Puljujarvi, Nurse
PHX - Domi, Strome, Dvorak, Chychrun
BUF - Eichel, Ristolainen, Reinhart, A.Nylander
TAM - Kucherov, Drouin, Namestnikov, Vasilevskiy

Out of all those groups, I think Toronto & Winnipeg's groups are flat-out awesome. You could say the same about Edmonton, based purely on McDavid, and on Draisatl as well, who looks like at the very least he's going to be a big, solid #2 center behind McDavid.

For Edmonton vs. Toronto, McDavid > Matthews, but our next three beats the hell out of their next three, and I don't think the gap between Matthews & McDavid is wide enough to make the difference. For Winnipeg vs. Toronto, Ehlers & Nylander are basically a wash, but the Leafs have the advantage in every other matchup, IMO.

After those three, everyone else is a fairly significant step down. Ristolainen might actually be better than Rielly, but Matthews is better than, or at least equal to Eichel, and Reinhart and little Nylander just aren't on the same level as big Nylander & Marner. For Arizona, all four guys are nice players, but none of them are franchise cornerstones except for maybe Strome, but the jury's still out on him.

Overall, I think I'd go:

1) Toronto
2) Edmonton
3) Winnipeg
4) Tampa
5) Buffalo
6) Arizona
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Great post.

I think McDavid > Matthews > the rest

but I put Draisaitl at Nylander/Marner level

I really think it is just a Leafs vs Oilers battle but maybe I don't know enough about Reinhart and Nylander

They thing with McDavid is he is the best player in the NHL already.
 
Oilers top 4 a few seasons ago

Hall - 80 points - traded (lol)
Eberle - 65 points - sucks now
RNH - 56 points - sucks now
Schultz - 33 points - traded
 
Yeah McDavid will be the best soon enough. But if you could have Crosby or McDavid for this year only, Crosby helps you win more.

Again it's a small sample size but dude's on pace for what... 75 goals?

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Habspatrol said:
Yeah McDavid will be the best soon enough. But if you could have Crosby or McDavid for this year only, Crosby helps you win more.

Again it's a small sample size but dude's on pace for what... 75 goals?

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are you high?
 
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