Quoting: Copenhagen
You should watch an Oilers game for once and see who the centers are and usually McDavid gets put out with another line in the 3rd because we are always behind and he takes the draws! Drai is our number 1 center and you can evaluate McDavid how ever you want on his worth. If you think that wingers are worth as much as centers and Defense, than I certainly cant help you with anything you have to say. (I think I can sum up your entire thought process, if a player plays in Edmonton they are a centre and worth more then every leaf player.) I have no idea what this even means! Nylander is not worth Seth Jones no matter how you look at it. Seth jones contract is amazing, he is a legit top 5 D in the league! If you think that is Jones worth for Nylander, so be it, but you never will!
McDavid is the best player in the team, he's your #1 centre but isn't good at draws although neither is Draisaitl so I am not sure why you are hanging your entire stance on faceoffs taken.
What I actually think is McDavid is the best player in the game. I think Draisaitl with McDavid is magic. What he is without McDavid is good but not nearly as effective as he is with McDavid. I think you can put me and a shovel on the ice with McDavid and he'll score a point a game. I think if you put me and Draisaitl together with a shovel, Draisaitl wouldn't score half as much. That doesn't mean he sucks, I am a terrible hockey player and a shovel is a shovel, no one should do well in that scenario, it just means that we don't really know how good Draisaitl is because no one seems to be able to put points up unless McDavid is on the ice.
If you want to say that McDavid is running off the coat tails of Draisaitl, I don't think many are going to support you.
The point I was trying to make with all this is that Larsson isn't really anything special and he isn't worth Kapanen. You like to throw around value based on importance to your team which is an completely flawed way to see things. Just because a guy is in a certain position on one team doesn't mean much if your team isn't very good and he's the best you have currently. For example, in the Kessel years, Bozak was a #1 centre in TO, does that make him a legit #1C? Not even close. So if Kapanen was on Edmonton what would he be? Your best RW, hands down and it isn't close, Edmonton just doesn't have any depth on the wings. Does that mean Kapanen is now worth more because he's the best of a bad bunch? No, it means he's worth exactly what he is worth, he's a top 6 winger on most teams, just not TO because they have Nylander and Marner ahead of him.