Very good team. If I were you I’d add in Slavin over werenski

Ekholm is NSH best contract. 3mill for a top 30 dman

Blueger and ZAR at $750K-$1M is good. Rust if he plays like he did last year at $3.5M. Guentzel at $6M while producing like a $8-9M winger. Crosby at $8.7M while being the 2nd/3rd best C in the league.

Crosby is 3rd/4th

McDavid and then Crosby/MacKinnon. I would say 29 but there is indeed a case for him being at 2. There's not more than 2 centers better than 87.

McJesus

*Gap*

MacKinnon

*Big gap*

Crosby/Draisaitl

There's a bigger gap between McDavid-29/97 than Crosby-MacKinnon. Draisaitl is poor at even strength defense, he could be the 7th best C.

Werenskis better but slavin is good.

Had ekholm at the beginning but ran into issues with cap and positions later on. Had to take him out.

I need a scratch. And mcdavid, mackinnon, draisaitl, matthews and maybe eichel are better than crosby.

Yeah, you would need solid arguments for the last 3.

Forget eichel. Matthews scores more and his team relies on him less than PIT does on crosby, but he still scores more. Draisaitl also scores more than crosby does. Not saying crosby in his prime wasnt better than both of them but hes not the same crosby anymore

Great. Points are important but it's not the only thing that matters. Draisaitl can barely defend at even strength. And Crosby is better than Matthews defensively. Crosby has also had the worst quality of teammates between those three in 2/3 past seasons+tougher quality of competition the two past seasons than the other 2.

29 & 34 were better than 87 last season but it's only one year. Crosby could return to his usual form and you would have to say he's better again.

Not draisaitl. Guentzel and hornqvist are better than the best wingers behind yamamoto.
True crosbys better defensively but matthews has consistently scored more plus crosby got injured.
Also i think crosbys washed up and PITs relying on him more and more as the team gets worse and malkin isnt the same player that he was. Hes still a great player but I dont think he will ever be close to what he was. The crosby era is over.

I wasn't saying my opinion, there are stats that evaluate the quality of teammates and 29 has played so much time with 97, you don't even need stats to know it.
" but matthews has consistently scored more plus crosby got injured. " as I said, goals aren't the only thing that matters and Crosby is the better playmaker, Matthews' the sniper.
He was literally a top5 C last year and you think he's " washed up "? Alright that's a new one

Like i said he is still a great player but hes not what he used to be anymore. And what makes assists better than goals. Goals are actually worth more than assists. You can see im not very high on crosby and might be underrating him but everyone overrates crosby. Hes not sidney crosby anymore.

In terms of overall play, as I'd said many times, my top 5 is:
1-Sid
2-MacK
3-97
4-Matthews
5-Point

Hamilton is better then Slavin lol

Yeah but you replace hamilton with jones. But hamilton werenski is better than jones slavin for sure.