I dont know if it is comparable due to the fact that crosby and ovie and mac and yak arent the same type of players. Mac is like more like tavares and less like crosby and yak does really play like ovy. There might be the same rivalry between the two though. Time will tell..
I'm not sure if anyone in this thread has mentioned this, but MacKinnon will probably end up playing for the Oilers...
In all seriousness, probably not. Crosby and Ovechkin were the de facto #1A and #1B best players in the NHL and were counted on to be the faces of the NHL. Neither Yakopov nor MacKinnon will be the two best players in the NHL and I doubt the NHL will attempt to manufacture a rivalry between the two. Also, there's a chance they'll play in different conferences and only meet once or twice a year.
So what I'm getting from this is that Phoenix will draft MacKinnon, save a dying franchise, and develop the greatest rivalry since Gretzky and Lemieux?
Crosby and Ovechkin were drafted onto teams that, if they were not already rivals, at least had a history of playoff defeat and emotionally charged games with one another.
Maybe if MacKinnon gets drafted by Calgary (which could very well happen). But the NHL won't try to promote the rivalry due to the lack of impact on the U.S. market.
I'm an Oilers fan but in terms of skill Yakupov doesn't come anywhere close to what Ovechkin was...and I doubt MacKinnon touches Crosby either.
That's pretty important for a rivalry. At one point Crosby/Ovechkin were virtually unanimously regarded as 1/2 in the world. I doubt that'll happen with Yakupov/MacKinnon
Not even remotely similar because Crosby and Ovechkin were the best players in the world for several years and the face of the league. Nothing is impossible, but Yakupov and MacKinnon do not project as generational players.
Seriously, I don't get this kind of questions - even if there could be given an answer, and this answer would be "yes, the situation is comparable", where do people want to go with that?
Perhaps I'm a sceptic, but I just don't see any meaningful debates following such observations.
Didn't Pittsburgh lose the draft for Ovie and get Malkin, then won the draft during the lockout?
Columbus lost the draft for Yakupov and got Murray. Maybe we'll win this draft?
I'd like the Pens to "lose" more drafts if every draft they "lose", they draft a Malkin. Unless OV gets his game back, you could argue that WSH was the one who lost.
Even if the Oilers got MacKinnon, they'll still be s****y because between him, Hall, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins, Schultz, and Yakupov, they would take up so much cap space that they'd have barely any $$ to acquire any decent depth players.
Even if the Oilers got MacKinnon, they'll still be s****y because between him, Hall, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins, Schultz, and Yakupov, they would take up so much cap space that they'd have barely any $$ to acquire any decent depth players.
Not really. They would dominate with a core like that. Depth players can be had for cheap. They'd be able to transition off ELCs for quite some time.
Even if the Oilers got MacKinnon, they'll still be s****y because between him, Hall, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins, Schultz, and Yakupov, they would take up so much cap space that they'd have barely any $$ to acquire any decent depth players.
There's no way that the Oilers would pick Mackinnon over Seth Jones.
1)Get a potential franchise defenseman in the draft.
2)Sign a big number 2 centreman through Unrestricted free agency.
