It's been said that Connor McDavid was the second coming of Sidney Crosby - and then it was said that Auston Matthews was the second coming of McDavid. So it has been every year with the first overall pick, and so it goes.
We are incredibly lucky to get to watch the world's best players take the ice at once, but when you get into comparisons like that, it's hard to appreciate them for what they are. Brilliant playmaking, a high hockey IQ, leadership skills, and an uncanny natural talent with the puck characterize all of these forwards, and then some. On the other hand, every player's path to the NHL and the trials and tribulations they face once there, shape their careers and playing styles uniquely.
I'll admit it now; I'm a Pittsburgh Penguins
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It's like Deja vu: years of underperforming leads to a phenomenal first-overall pick, who is quickly named captain and begins an upward trajectory for his team. No one needs to tell us how great it feels to watch that unfold, either.
(I'm done bragging, I promise.)
McDavid, unsurprisingly, has been a huge factor on the score sheet as well. He has 19 points in 16 games played this season, and is a +5. When the Oilers took the ice in Pittsburgh, McDavid assisted on all three of their goals. The Penguins ended up winning 4-3 in a contentious, evenly matched game.
The Leafs' visit to Pittsburgh was far less leveled, in that the Penguins took a decisive 4-1 victory after putting 49 shots on goal. Crosby picked up a goal and an assist in that time, while Zach Hyman, of all people, was the only one to score for the Leafs. Does that mean Matthews is in a slump?
Spoiler alert: Not at all. He's played fifteen games and it was physically impossible for anyone to keep up the torrid scoring pace he started out with. He's nineteen. He also has a weaker supporting cast than both McDavid and Crosby do.
Plus, he's still got 12 points - six goals and six assists - and is tied for the Leafs' point lead with Mitch Marner and William Nylander, both of whom are also having ridiculous rookie seasons so
This is because Matt duchene did not know the ottawa players too well. All the hockey analysts say that good chemistry is essential to playing good as a team. Thus, as time progressed, matt duchene started playing better and scoring more as he got to know his teammates.
A rookie NHL All-Star, the number one overall pick, an 18 year old from Arizona, and the future of the NHL, number 34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs Auston Matthews is fifth overall in total goals this season. Auston Matthews was born in San Ramon, California on September 17, 1997 and at two months old, moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. To start, his Uncle had season tickets to then, Phoenix Coyotes games, now Arizona Coyotes, where Auston went to his first hockey game when he was three years old and fell in love with the sport. He first started hockey at age five and was once better at baseball than he was at hockey. He was good baseball because he had good eye-hand coordination and hitting was his strength. Anyhow, there weren't
Have you ever wondered what the oilers were like in their first season? And what's in the future for Connor McDavid?
The nine-teen year old Konecny who was selected 24th overall by the Flyers a summer ago is knocking on the door of the NHL. Konecny is a highly skilled forward who isn’t a afraid to play physical. Konecny scored 30 goals last season in the Ontario Hockey League. Konecny totaled 101 points in 60 games. Flyers General Manger Ron Hextall had this to say about Konecny “Travis is a High-Character kid. Works hard. He’s got speed and a lot of attraibutes we value. Konecny has played with both Claude Giroux and Jackub Voracek in the preseason so far and hasn’t disappointed the flyers. Konecny has 2 goals and 2 assists in 4 games for the Flyers this preseason.
Condon has won his first four games in the League, including the Canadiens' 6-2 victory at the Calgary Flames on Friday. The 25-year-old rookie started his second game in a row in place of Carey Price, who is out for a week because of a lower-body injury.
“Sidney Crosby has the 4th Best points per game in NHL history. He has also won every possible individual and team award that can be won before the age of 25. Crosby makes the players around him better (kunitz and dupuis). Crosby is always improving and is good at many little things such as faceoffs, shootouts, and he always is a good all around player being defensively responsible and his plus minus demonstrates this.” Says a user from debate.org. Is Sidney Crosby still the best? It’s a yes or no question and there is many debates.
“Choking” is a sports term used to refer to a team who does well during the regular season, but when it gets to the time when everything matters, they fail to live up to expectations. Sidney Crosby, on the other hand, has two Stanley Cups under his belt and by the looks of it, he may be winning another win this year. When both the players joined the league they got off to an immediate start in points. In Ovechkin’s first year he put up 106 points and Crosby put up 102 points. The players have been pretty even throughout the years, stats wise. Crosby has missed quite a bit of his potential playing career due to injuries, many of which are concussions. As of the moment, Ovechkin has one more year in the league that Crosby and leads the two with a total of 1035 NHL career points. Crosby, on the other hand, has 1027 career points. Crosby also holds the title of the man to reach the 1000 point milestone in as little games as possible. In the goals category, Ovechkin leads by a tremendous margin. Sometimes this is a good thing, but if you look at his goals to points ratio, he doesn’t impress in the assists area compared to Crosby. Ovechkin has scored 558 goals while in the league, Crosby only having scored 382. Crosby, on the other hand, has 645 assists while Ovechkin only has 477. Every time you bring these players up it is such a close battle to know which one of these players is better. In my opinion, I think that Crosby is
But their luck changed in 2015–16 when, after a slow start and a mid-season coaching change, the team got through the playoffs and won the Stanley Cup, defeating the San Jose Sharks four games to two. Seven years after winning his first Cup at age 21, Crosby was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as playoff MVP with six goals and 13 assists. After he won the award he said, "I look at this as a total team effort. I tried to work hard every night, do my job just like everyone else. I don't know if I did anything different or specific.
Hockey players born earlier in the year have a huge advantage over players that may be
Well in all truth, he has and hasn't. Both Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin have had incredible careers thus far. Considering this, why is the "Taylor vs Tyler" argument still around? Truthfully, it's because we are hockey fans, it's what all of us do.
This generational hockey player only comes around every so often. Dangling goalies often into embarrassment while skating and shouting "showtime" after every major goal. Scoring in major moments vs Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and many more make people to believe he's the greatest American born player ever. He has gone through rough times leading people to turn on him but the fans in Chicago will always stand by him. As fans around the league root against him all he has to do is show off the three Stanley Cup rings. Pretty soon it'll be playoff time and showtime will be in title mode hoping to bring home a fourth Stanley Cup in eight seasons.
On-ice performance: achieved playoff contention every year since 2003; Ranked third of thirty teams in NHL
When he was traded for multiple Los Angeles players in 1988, Canada was set into somewhat of an emotional earthquake. This shows how dedicated we are to supporting our home-grown players.
He shoots he scores! The history of hockey has changed over time. There are many good players that wouldn't be as good if these changes wouldn't have changed.
This seemingly small advantage in most cases tends to give the older kids an advantage over the younger players because they get more playing time, get placed on better teams, receive better coaching, and in turn become more skilled hockey players. Obviously those who go on to succeed must have innate talent, but that is not the primary factor deciding whether they succeed or fail at the sport. The primary factor in how good they become at hockey is the better opportunities they received because of their age. When applying Gladwell’s Outlier theory “The outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage” (37) the birth date of the hockey players serves a crucial role and is just an arbitrary advantage. The coaches should not place the same expectations on the younger players or the younger players should be put in a younger league more suitable for them so they too can be given a chance to become great like those born in the earlier months. Since this doesn’t happen though those born earlier are much more likely to become great, which provides a solid backing of Gladwell’s Outlier theory.