Quoting: aedoran
Yeah Mantha hasnt played well since he broke his hand for a second time. The first time ended his season in 2016-17 both were from fighting. Mantha was a wing on Z's and until he got hurt he was on Larkin's line. With Nyquist playing well its the first stretch in his NHL career where he hasn't been on the first line.
Which p/60 are you using? even strength? I think it's better for comparing.
I still think Mantha better and you think Burakovsky is better. Since they are in similar situations let see who gets more points from now till the end of this season. Then next season we can do p/60 even strength.
Yep. Even strength, from NHL.com. If you check or unched "sum results" and rerun the search, it gives you career vs. year by year stats:
http://www.nhl.com/stats/player?aggregate=1&report=skaterscoring&reportType=season&seasonFrom=20132014&seasonTo=20182019&gameType=2&position=F&playerPlayedFor=team.15&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=pointsPer60Minutes
Also incredibly close, Burakovsky's ahead by 5 primary assists, career, and by two shots on goal. They each draw 0.56 penalties per hour. Burakovsky takes .45 to Mantha's .52. Mantha's got 7more power play goals, but Burakovsky has 9 more at even strength.
They're really close. Broken hand from a fight is probably a cooler injury than broken wrist from getting slashed, though.
Burakovsky auditions on top lines for like, five or ten games a year. He plays all over, but it's mostly third line, except the year he was 21 and he played 2nd line with Johansson and rookie Kuznetsov. That's the year he got 17 even strength goals (one more than Mantha's career high, equal to AA's) and 2.40 points/60. So neither of them is great on their own, but with good players, they can each keep up, and help keep the offense going.
I'm pretty sure that Burakovsky will get more points the rest of this year, because after the trade deadline, he's going to play 1R somewhere, with regular top unit power play time, for the first time in his career. But just for fun, on February 9th, Mantha's got 12 goals, 8 assists, and 20 points. Burakovsky's got 7, 6, 13. Good luck!