Quoting: Ryminister_27
& side note, a player being "dominant at face offs" lasts longer than 12 games. He's been good so far this season (again only 12 games) but he's traditionally right around 50% at face offs, which is far from dominant.
Draisaitl's faceoff win percentage
2017-18: 56.1%
2018-19: 50.5%
2019-20: 52.1%
2020-21: 57.2%
Average over the past 3+ seasons: 53.05%
Those are fairly consistent numbers ranging from "above average" to "dominant".
Quoting: Ryminister_27
Draisaitl is a top 5 offensive player, sure. But he's not even a top 20 player like people think he is. He defensive deficiencies cost his team a lot, that's not a top player in the league. Hence why he's overrated.
Since moving to his own line in 2019, Draisaitl has been dominant offensively and defensively.
Overall scoring
1. Draisaitl: 42, 28-43-71 [1.69 P/GP]
2. Panarin: 41, 16-43-59 [1.44]
3. McDavid: 35, 20-38-58 [1.66]
4. Kane: 42, 19-33-52 [1.24]
5. Nugent-Hopkins: 42, 20-31-51 [1.21]
6. MacKinnon: 40, 15-36-51 [1.28]
7. Connor: 43, 28-22-50 [1.16]
8. all others below 50 points.
Offensively, he's on another planet from everyone else. To say he's "top-5" is vastly underselling him.
There are lots of ways to rate defense, I'll look at 5v5 GA/60, GF% and xGA/60 since he was moved away from McDavid permanently.
Draisaitl:
1.77 GA/60 (
70.59 GF%) 2.39 xGA/60
MacKinnon: 1.83 (68.33%) 2.03
Point: 2.01 (68.85%) 2.32
Bergeron: 2.17 (59.52%)
1.73
Barkov: 2.24 (51.28%) 2.31
Couterier: 2.35 (62.22%) 1.97
Matthews: 2.35 (55.00%) 2.30
Crosby: 2.84 (47.73%) 2.51
Tavares: 2.85 (49.12%) 2.30
Pettersson: 3.00 (61.11%) 2.69
He's been among the very best in the league at keeping the puck out of his own net since December 2019. His xGA/60 is in the same range as Matthews, Barkov, Point and Tavares. He's no Bergeron at shutting down opposition chances, but then he doesn't have the same quality of linemates, either.