Post 2013 Forward Lockout Tournament Tier 1 Final: Auston Matthews Versus Connor McDavid | HFBoards

Since the players involved are at different stages of their careers, the best way to vote is probably by answering this question: If I was a General Manager and I could draft one player for my team (having the knowledge that I have about each player at this point in time), which player would I choose?

Some are more accomplished than others and some have been more injury-prone than others, but under different circumstances, how different could things have been?

Tier 1, Round 1:

Connor McDavid (52 votes to 4 – 92.9%)
Connor Bedard

Nathan MacKinnon (25 votes to 21 – 54.3%
Nikita Kucherov

Auston Matthews (62 votes to 33 – 65.3%)
Leon Draisaitl

Elias Pettersson (32 votes to 27 – 54.2%)
Jack Hughes

Jack Eichel
Aleksander Barkov (16 votes to 0 – 100%)

Kirril Kaprizov (39 votes to 27 – 59.1%)
Mikko Rantanen

David Pastrnak (23 votes to 8 – 74.2%)
Artemi Panarin

Mitch Marner
Brayden Point (19 votes to 8 – 70.4%)

Tier 1, Round 2:

Kirril Kaprizov
David Pastrnak (18 votes to 6 – 75%)

Brayden Point (15 votes to 12 – 55.6%)
Elias Pettersson

Aleksander Barkov
Auston Matthews (32 votes to 16 – 66.7%)

Connor McDavid (45 votes to 3 – 93.8%)
Nathan MacKinnon

Tier 1, Round 3:

David Pastrnak
Auston Matthews (40 votes to 22 – 64.5%)

Connor McDavid (52 votes to 3 – 94.5%)
Brayden Point

Final:

Auston Matthews
Connor McDavid