Quoting: HOCKEYBOY448
Here’s like 25-30 I take without thinking before Miller off the top of my head:
McDavid
Draisatl
MacKinnon
Matthews
Marchand
Marner
Huberdeau
Barkov
Rantanen
Pastrnak
Panarin
Kucherov
Point
Stone
Eichel
Kaprizov
Crosby
Ovechkin
Malkin
Aho
Schiefele
Stamkos
Ehlers
Connor
Tkachuk
And that’s just forwards. If I included goalies and defenseman the list gets longer. You could drop the last 10 from my list and he doesn’t crack that and I’m the biased one. League is a lot bigger than Vancouver.
I take your point, but wholly disagree. Swap Miller with Rantanen, Stone, Marner, Pasta, Point and he outperforms them all in BETTER teams. Not only does Miller score a ton and put up PPG, but he also kills penalties and wins faceoffs in one of the worst teams in the league.
I'd have him over Eichel, although Jack's a strange situation.
Equally hard to compare to Bergeron. Put Bergeron in that Canucks team and people wouldn't consider him in a top 50.
Ovi & Sid are obviously next level, but don't exactly have long left.
How much use is Malkin when he plays 20 games a season?
He's comfortably better than Tkachuk, Connor, Ehlers, Schiefele, and Stamkos.
Obviously all a matter of opinion and I am willing to concede that in reality top 25 would seem fairer with Dmen and goalies considered. However I am also firmly of the belief that if you place Miller on a top line in a Colorado/Florida/Carolina etc he's a 90-100 point player.