| McDavid Wins his 4th Art Ross [message #804853] |
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 smyth260
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Registered: November 2007
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Congratulations Connor! Unbelievable year.
Some notes:
- He has already doubled Sidney Crosby.
- Oilers have won 5 Art Rosses out of the last 6 years.
- He has passed Lafleur (3 wins), and tied Mikita (4). He is behind Jagr (5), Esposito (5), Lemieux (6), Howe (6), and Gretzky (10)
And he did this:
https://youtu.be/laNRPAjKQsM
Clean house or bust
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Mike
Messages: 1397
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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| smyth260 wrote on Mon, 02 May 2022 03:10 |
Congratulations Connor! Unbelievable year.
Some notes:
- He has already doubled Sidney Crosby.
- Oilers have won 5 Art Rosses out of the last 6 years.
- He has passed Lafleur (3 wins), and tied Mikita (4). He is behind Jagr (5), Esposito (5), Lemieux (6), Howe (6), and Gretzky (10)
And he did this:
https://youtu.be/laNRPAjKQsM
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That's awesome. We are so lucky to have won the right to select him.
Barring injury, I think he can get to 6 easily. He has to be the favorite again for next year, and probably the next few years still. Gaudreau and Huberdeau had amazing totals this year, but both of those were career years for them (16 and 23 more than their previous best). Kaprizov is an interesting one - he's only 25 and who knows how much better he will get. I looked at Mackinnon - was shocked to see he never hit 100 points. 3 straight with 90+ topping out at 99 (he has had 3 seasons with an 82 game pace over 100 points though).
I think until someone like Connor Bedard comes in to challenge him in a few years, McDavid will be the odds on favourite every year. With his biggest challenge coming from Draisaitl and Kucherov (2nd best PPG this year at 1.47 behind only McDavid's 1.54)
Not much chance in catching Wayne, but I really believe if he stays healthy he could get to 7.
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Adam
Messages: 7176
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Mike wrote on Mon, 02 May 2022 07:00 |
That's awesome. We are so lucky to have won the right to select him.
Barring injury, I think he can get to 6 easily. He has to be the favorite again for next year, and probably the next few years still. Gaudreau and Huberdeau had amazing totals this year, but both of those were career years for them (16 and 23 more than their previous best). Kaprizov is an interesting one - he's only 25 and who knows how much better he will get. I looked at Mackinnon - was shocked to see he never hit 100 points. 3 straight with 90+ topping out at 99 (he has had 3 seasons with an 82 game pace over 100 points though).
I think until someone like Connor Bedard comes in to challenge him in a few years, McDavid will be the odds on favourite every year. With his biggest challenge coming from Draisaitl and Kucherov (2nd best PPG this year at 1.47 behind only McDavid's 1.54)
Not much chance in catching Wayne, but I really believe if he stays healthy he could get to 7.
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One thing with Connor is that he seems almost offended to see anyone else's name at the top of the scoring charts. There was a single day where he was passed by Huberdeau and then he had 9-10 points in the next three games. He's a man on a mission about that stuff.
I do think he likely wants to try to pass that Kucherov point total and try to get over 130. If Woodcroft had been here most of the year, I think he would have been higher for sure.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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oilfan94
Messages: 409
Registered: June 2006
Location: USA
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Oilers still need need 3 more to catch the Penguins for the most all time (Oilers with 12 and Penguins with 15). I think McDavid can pull that off, and maybe Draisaitl can get another one too. Funny to think how the Oilers and Penguins happen to have some of the highest scoring players of the last 42 years. Next after the Oilers is Montreal and Chicago tied at 9. The most non original 6 team other than the Oilers and Penguins is Los Angeles with 4.
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Kr55
Messages: 10770
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Figure the PP out again and he will just run away with it next season. Tippett sucked the life out of this team for a good couple months this year. And for whatever reason it's taken a long time to figure the PP out since around December. Woodcroft never really did get any good breaks in the schedule to work on things.
Let's see 150 points next year :)
[Updated on: Mon, 02 May 2022 15:24]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
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