Jarvis has been better this year, wich is understandable because Caufield is struggling offensively and coming back from an injury, but he has been worse the 2 seasons before. However, Jarvis is better defensively. So Caufield is superior offensively, Jarvis defensively and offensively this season. Overall, Jarvis is better but it’s a much closer comparison than Caufield and Necas.

Jarvis is drastically better than Caufield. Necas is the closer comparable. Jarvis is better defensively, offensively, as a goal scorer, as a physical presence (this sounds so stupid for a dude that is 5'10, but he HAS to lead the league in hits against guys who are half a foot taller than he is) . It's not close, plus, your favorite defense, Jarvis is younger. He's on pace for around 70 points this year, which is better than anything Caufield has done.

To get Jarvis, you have to start with Suzuki. There's nothing else worth Jarvis on the Habs roster.

I’m taking Jarvis all day. I knew right when he got drafted to Carolina, that he was going to be a good player. Caufield is good, not denying that, but Jarvis has been better all around the ice, especially this season. He was good in the last two years, but has turned up his game a lot this year. I’m excited to see more of him in the future. Especially if he got traded to Edmonton haha!

Not drastically better lol. The difference between Jarvis and Caufield is smaller than between Caufield and Necas.

Jarvis is better offensively this season, but Caufield smokes him last 2 seasons and age ajusted. Caufield is also the best goal scorer. Defensively, Jarvis is better, but not by a lot. Overall he is better, but it’s much closer than Necas

Carolina fans love to make outlandish claims about their players and then in their own AGMs underpay them by like 3 million dollars a year

Jarvis over Caufield any day. But I think we can all agree that the Canes and Habs would not be good trade partners.

The difference between Jarvis and Caufield is MUCH larger than the difference between Caufield and Necas. Jarvis is the best goal scorer, he's the best defensively, he's the best offensively, he's the youngest. He's by FAR the most valuable and it's not close. Ranking the three, it's Jarvis, Necas THEN Caufield.

No, the difference isn’t big.

Caufield is BY FAR the best goal scorer. At the same age, he had 3 less goals in 29 less games. He has a 0.37 GPG while Jarvis has a 0.27 over the course of their career. Also, this year, Jarvis had an insanely high shooting% while Caufield had an extremely low one.

Defensively, they are quite close. Look at stats, almost the same advanced stats.

Jarvis is better offensively this season but Caufield was better the 2 seasons before by a lot.

So the only thing really that difference them is that Jarvis got his breakout season before Caufield got 70 pts. If I had to class them, it would be like this :

Jarvis
Caufield

Necas

It's quite a large gap. Jarvis is about to hit 30 goals, something Caufield has never done. Jarvis has done this with his most frequent linemates being Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook. So, a lesser QoT, less ice time, and he's beating the breaks off Caufield in points, points per game, and goals? Don't disrespect Jarvis.

The ONLY acceptable order of the three is
Jarvis

Necas
Caufield. You cannot have a dude with a career high of 55 points above a 60-65 point winger and a dude that's going to hit 70 this year. THAT is just pure bias

LMAO, you clearly have no concept of math, Jarvis has 60 goals in his first 3 years, Caufield had 69, clearly Caufield is the better goal scorer. Jarvis has 141 points compared to Caufield's 134 points, which is clear that he has a slight edge offensively to date even though Caufield has had a "down" year. All this to say the gap isn't nearly as wide as you make it out to be my friend.

Jarvis is significantly better. As I've said, Jarvis has not played top line until like 3 weeks ago and he's STILL on pace for 30 goals, 70 points, two things Caufield has never done. Jarvis is clearly better offensively, he's the better goal scorer, he's DOMINANT defensively, and he's a year younger. All those arguments Habs fans made for Caufield over Necas, Jarvis dominates Caufield. It's so funny.

Jarvis is playing on a top team and Caufield on a bottom one. Can this affect the numbers and would both offer the same pace if the situation was switched?

Not really. The argument of Carolina being a better team implies that Jarvis has better linemates. Who would you rather play with, Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook or Nick Suzuki and Kirby Dach or Juraj Slafkovsky?

Again, would Caufield have produced the same way if he was with Martinook and Staal or would Jarvis be able to do the same with Suzuki?

Lmao, one season doesn't make him better, if it does than Caufield is better than Svechnikov since Svech only has 45 points this year and Caufield has 55. You keep trying to compare just this season when both broke into the league at the same time so their careers can easily be compared. Yes Jarvis had broken out first but that doesn't mean he is better, it just means he had his breakout year first. Caufeild was on pace for 50 goals last season before management shut him down due to injury, Jarvis has never been on pace for 50 goals. No one is saying that Jarvis is a bad player, on the contrary we are all in agreement that he is a really good player, just not much better than Caufield, the way you make him out to be you would think he was better than MacKinnon

Hahahaha. Caufield was on pace for 46 last year. Jarvis is a worse goal scorer lol. No question about it. Caufield has a better production than Jarvis age wise or not. Caufield is better offensively. Defensively, advanced stats are telling they are quite similar and Jarvis is playing on a elite defensive team with the best players of the team defensively.

Jarvis played 5 less min than Caufield this season…
It’s funny how you are comparing Jarvis’ pace to Caufield current production. Only way to make it look like a big difference. If you use pace for both, Jarvis will end up with 6 pts more than a struggling Caufield. Good joke

Cool, he had 26. Jarvis already has 28, By definition, Jarvis is the better goal scorer, Caufield's injury issues don't exempt him from that. A players best ability is availability! Once again, Jarvis is more comparable to Suzuki than Caufield, Caufield is just a worse Necas

Ah yes, 29 goals in 75 games is SO much better than 26 goals in 46 games. Statistically, there was more chance for Caufield to hit 30 this season than Jarvis hitting 30 this year lol. They are very close.

Suzuki and Jarvis have a similar age ajusted production. The only difference between them is that Suzuki destroys Jarvis in defensive stats. He is closer to Aho or Svechnicov

You’re like a broken record, denying evidence