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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
Is McDavid overrated?
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Not in my opinion. I get that people jump on him for Edmonton's failure to win the Cup. However it's a "Team" game, not 1 player wins it by themself. Gretzky never won it by himself. He had a lot of top talent around him. It's an extremely hard trophy to win, and a lot has to go right. The team has to play at a top level, such as Tampa did in their run to 3 finals and now Florida is doing.
Get an unfortunate injury at the wrong time, your team suffers. I'm not going to claim Edmonton would have won, but had RNH been at 100% and had Hyman been healthy, I think it would have been much closer. But injuries happen to all teams, and when they do other players have to step up. Hyman led the playoffs in hits when he got injured, and his hits weren't the softy type. That can make a huge difference in a series.
McDavid is the best player in the game, just my opinion, and he shows up in the playoffs. His 2 way game has improved a lot the past few years. Maybe he'll get to lift the Cup one day. Maybe not, but I won't and don't judge individual players on Championships won/lost.
Plus the way the media hypes certain players, it's no wonder people find it easy to blame that player for a teams failures. There's many ways to look at it, and it's always easy to point fingers and lay blame. That's just a fact of Professional Sports, and life in general.