Agreed. He went from an unsustainably high shooting percentage with eichel and reinhart, to a ridiculously low shooting percentage with marcus johansson (who was horribly miscast as a #2 center) and either connor sheary or evan rodrigues. Hes probably gonna get staal and either reinhart or olofsson as linemates this year, he should get back to 25 at least, hopefully more (obviously pro-rated, i think they should be thrilled if they get to 48 games).

Eichel was on a

Eichel was on a 94 point pace when the season ended due to a global pandemic. His ppg has improved each and every season.

Nice try

LMAO the Oilers would not trade Draisaitl for Eichel. 1 of those guys is the defending Hart, Art Ross, and Ted Lindsay winner, the other one hasn't won anything in his career, hasn't hit 100 points in a season, and hasn't scored 50 goals in a season...

I assume you meant to say Dahlin will get 9 goals, not 19. Eichel can get 100 points for sure, he will just have to play his best every night.

Won the Art Ross but regularly gets caved in in his own zone...

it's almost as if the voting for such awards is lazy and as predictable as looking up who has the most points and simply picking that guy.

For example: most valuable player to their respective team this year was easily Mackinnon and yet he didn't win the Hart.

In your opinion. In the opinion of the actual NHL players that voted Draisaitl won the award by the biggest margin in NHL voting history so there's that...

He has 270 points in the past three seasons. He is still a top 10 player

You did a great job.
Do not listen to the negative comments.

Here's the deal.
If you want to see those goal totals get rid of Krueger.
8 players had career worse seasons last year.
Vesey, Okposo, Miller, Montour, Sheary, Rodrigues, Hutton and of course Skinner.
I do not expect things to better this year.

To start put Skinner back with Jack and 40 goals is achievable.
Skinner: Eichel: Thompson:
Hall: Staal: Cozens:
Olofsson: Mittelstadt: Reinhart:
Girgensons: Eakin: Okposo:
Lazar: Ruotsalainen
Dahlin: Miller:
McCabe: Ristolainen:
Montour: Jokiharju:

273 goals, very well could be.
Montour WILL score more pts than Jokiharju.
Cozens will surprise all of us and get over 50 pts, in a year he will be better than Reinhart.
24 is about correct for Olofsson as Jeff and Taylor will play more minutes than he.
Give Jack 40 goals as well.

I share you excitement about next year.
If the offense is doing that well, the GK will appear to be better as well.
I am worried that the team does not have any depth.
Reider, Eakin, Davidson are not great replacements.
But if Ruotsalainen can bring his game to the NHL, then the depth is fine.
I wish we had Kahun and Vesey for added depth.

Of course it's my opinion. This is CapFriendly. Facts have no place here

No he is not he doesn’t drive play, he isn’t good in transition, he isn’t good in his own zone all he can do is finish, there are over 40 players in the league who are more effective than he is

There are not 40 players who a team would rather have than Kane at their top spot on wing... that is a joke of a statement

Not you obviously but anyone who has a basic understanding of analytics would and 98% of them are cheaper than Kane also

you cant use analytics as the sole reason for saying there are 40 players that teams would rather have than Kane. That is an absolute joke. There are over 20 teams that if Kane was on, he would be there best player. Analytics dont mean everything. Arizona was a heavy analytic team with Chayka and they were a very average, mediocre team..

Nah they just didn’t have anyone who is analytically good . Oh wait yes they did their two amazing goalies who are analytically stars and analytics show who’s good at offense, who’s good at defense who makes more of an impact and no there’s only like 4-5 teams where Kane would be the best player

yes there goalies were very good. They were a very average team. Made playoffs once, very low in goals scored per game. And Detroit, LA, Montreal, Rangers, Coyotes, Ducks, Calgary, Columbus, Dallas, Minnesota, Senators, Sharks, Blues, Philadelphia, New Jersey. Those are all the teams he would be the best player on and dont even try to argue cuz you know it is true.

Lol I’ma go through each team and correct you cause you dumb af he’s best on DET, and LA, on MTL Gallagher,danult, Suzuki and Weber had more impact, on the rangers panarin is not only better but he also had more impact so did Mika and fox, on ARZ kempuer and rannta had more impact, on the ducks gibson has more impact, on Calgary mangiapane, tkachuk and gaudreau have more impact, on CBJ Dubois,bjorkstrand and werenski had more impact, on Dallas heskinen had more impact, on minny spurgeon, and fiala had more impact, on the sens chabot had more impact, on the sharks hertl had more impact, on STL Oreilly, pitreangelo, and Dunn had more impact, on philly, giroux,couterier,konecny,lindblom,hart,properov and sanhiem all had more impact, and on NJ hischer,palmeri,severson and Blackwood had more impact. You should learn the difference between raw skill and impact because the best players in the league army based off raw skill it’s based off who has the most impact on the ice when they play

Yes because if i had the choice to pick for my team Danault, suzuki, weber, fox, Kuemper, hischer, palmeri, hart, proverov etc or PATRICK KANE i would choose one of those guys. are you blind? I am talking about BEST player not "the most impact." No duh a goalie is going to impact a team more than a winger. the point is teams would rather have kane than those guys i dont get the point you are missing or the point you are trying to make.

Bruh a team would not choose a winger far out of his prime making 10 mil a year who no longer has much impact on the game over a younger cheaper option, also Kane isn’t a top 40 player anymore because his impact on the gAme is minimal, all he can do is finish and there are many, many, many other players in the league who can finish just as good or better who are younger and cheaper