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 Jay
Messages: 1386
Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton
1 Cup
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| Kr55 wrote on Fri, 28 August 2026 16:32 |
| Jay wrote on Fri, 28 August 2026 16:20 |
I'm already sick of hearing about this guy. Maybe the most over hyped player in the history of the NHL.
Apparently he is now talking about how he "left money on the table" for SJ. 
Am I the only one who knows that he hasn't played a single game in the playoffs yet? He's "the next one" because of once nice regular season? Sure.
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I think he's top tier elite, borderline generational type of player. 115 points on such a crap team is nuts. That team was going for 1st OA again without him.
He's like the forward version of Makar. Just has infinite energy and is just skating at the puck all night every night, with good skills to compliment. Not quite McDavid tier stick handling and vision, but the infinite gas he has in the tank and refusal to quit lets him just keep getting into the middle of every situation.
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https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/top-players-right-now/nhl-cur rent-players-ranked-top-20-centers-2026
Apparently he's the 3rd best centre in the NHL. Today.
Zero (Zero) playoff games and he's ranked ahead of one of the greatest playoff performer in the history of the game and is the second highest paid player in the league (despite leaving all that money on the table).
He might be a great player one day who knows. Lots of things can happen and if the conversation is about potential 5 or 6 years down the road sure. But one nice regular season on a garbage team doesn't put him in the same conversation as some of the names he is routinely mentioned with all of a sudden (since the olympics). Let's see him hold up through a long playoff run and deliver. Or two or three.
Like I said, most overhyped player in NHL history.
"Initiative comes to thems that wait"
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