contract comparable team

JT is absolutely better than Kopitar. He's not the best skater but he still can skate circles around Kopitar.

riiiiiiiiight

its close but Kopitar has been better defensively and Tavares has slowed down offensively since 18-19

Everyone in the entire world outside of LA homers would agree with this if JT wasn't a Leafs. Kopitar is older, so slow and just not as good.

And yet JT has a good amount more points over the past 3 years, including an 88 point season and is plus 27 to Kopitar who is a minus over the same stretch. There is zero argument to prove this. Kopitar is the number 1 centre on a bad team and they are bad because their best player is old and slow.