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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
How is he only 18? If Monahan looks mature for his age, what does that make MacKinnon?
He's got to be the best NHL rookie since Crosby/Ovechkin.
As for the Palat vote, you may watch hockey and just be a liar. Something habernac didn't factor into his equation.
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Nate had only 1 more goal and 4 more points than Palat and played in 1 more game than Palat. Palat was +32 to Nate's +20.
If we look at some simple statistics from NHL.com, we see the following table:
During the entirety of the season, MacKinnon played predominantly with Landeskog, Stastny, O'Reilly, and Duchene; all players with a better PPG than MacKinnon. Comparatively, Palat played predominantly with Johnson, St. Louis, Callahan, Filppula, Purcell, and Panik; all players with a lower PPG than him except for St. Louis who was only there for 60 games and Filppula who was pretty darn close to even with Palat.
Call me a liar if you want, but my opinion is that Palat was better and more important to his team and the above statistics supports that.
On your point of MacKinnon being the best rookie since Crosby/Ovechkin, well here is a list of pretty darn good rookies since then who had really good rookie seasons and are comparable or better: Malkin, Stastny, Kopitar, Kane, Backstrom, Toews, Ryan, Skinner, Couture, Landeskog, and RNH.