I don’t think I have to tell you guys how much I love Leon Draisaitl. I’m literally the guy that’s been trying to crowbar the Big Sexy nickname into the Nation’s vernacular since the day I found out just how big and sexy he is but that’s not why we’re here. Sexiness aside, Leon Draisaitl’s three point performance against the Bruins in last night’s game brought his season total up to 61 points, a mark that no German NHLer had ever hit before.
Isn’t it funny how there were narratives last year that Leon Draisaitl wouldn’t be able to produce without Taylor Hall? The pessimists will still probably complain that Drai went from playing with Taylor to Connor, but I would argue that Leon almost does as much for Connor as Connor does for him. Leon takes some of the pressure off and, most impressively, he seems to think the game in a similar way to McDavid. Together, they form a dynamic duo the likes of which this city hasn’t seen in decades.
Say what you will about Draisaitl belonging at the centre position, that’s an argument we can have another day, but you can’t deny that the tripod he’s formed with Captain McDavid and Patty Maroon has become one of the most dangerous lines in the NHL. How many nights have we watched this trio pick apart the opposition and leave them in a wake of despair. For Draisaitl, that path of destruction has led to putting up the greatest single season by any German player to play in the NHL.
Up until last night, Marco Sturm held the record with the 59 points he registered while playing for both the Sharks and Bruins in 2005-06. What makes Draisaitl’s record breaking year even more impressive is the fact that he still has another 12 games left to play so we’ll have to wait to see how far he can take this run he’s on. Is it unrealistic to think that Draisaitl might be able to hit 75 points with 12 games left? I don’t think so.
Regardless of how he finishes, I wanted to take a few minutes to give Draisaitl a shout out for an amazing achievement that he should be proud to have accomplished. In his interview with Gene Principe following the game, Draisaitl said he was honoured to have surpassed Sturm for the highest points total by a German NHLer in a single season but he was too respectful to brag about it. Luckily, I’m here to do it for him. Atta be, Leon.
SHUT UP ABOUT DANY HEATLEY
Before someone in the comments section lights me up for forgetting about Dany Heatley I didn’t forget about him. Yes, Heatley was born in Germany but he moved to Canada after his dad retired from pro hockey when he was a toddler. I’m not counting it and I don’t care what you guys say. The fact of the matter is that Heatley never once represented Germany at any level and that disqualifies him from my list. Am I making my own rules? No. I’m right and you all know it. #DraiForever
YEAH BUT WHAT ABOUT WALT TKACZUK?
He moved to Canada when he was two years old. Again, Leon wins. End of story.
Loved it on Calgary’s Fan 960 last year where they had a discussion about the best NHL’er to ever come out of Calgary.
It was between Taylor Hall and Dany Heatley.
WRONG!!!!!!! IDIOT! DANNY HEATELY IS FROM GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
BM you SISSY!! Wrong again, brother.
Bike rack after school. We’re doing the thing.
Heatley played a year in the Swiss league, is he now from Switzerland too?
Rebuild 4.0 on Fleek
Leon “The Beast” Draisaitl
Calling Dany Heatley the top scoring German of all time is like calling Rod Langway the greatest Asian player of all time. Give Big Sexy 2.0 his due.
My man!
-Draisaitl
-Drice-idle
-Dr. Ice
Leon Draisaitl. The BFG. Love that dude man. Damn near best player on the Oil. Will be paid like it as well soon.
It is fairly common knowledge that Draisaitl has the biggest hammer in the Oilers locker room. But that should come as no surprise as he is the BFG. The German Hammer.
Huge if true.
Hey BM, I know a lot of people are blaming the website for less comments, but I must say, the average IQ level of the comments that are not Flames Trolls is definitely a lot higher. I am the positive type and know you guys are working behind the scenes tweaking things to get them just right. These things are a marathon not a Usain Bolt masterpiece.
You have rebuilt it and I will still come. (get your minds out of the gutters) But hey, after 23 years of marriage, I will come to pretty much anything 😉
Thanks buddy. Like you said, we have some edits coming that are based on some solid feedback we’ve heard from readers as well as our own experiences. Having a website work perfectly on a test server is a lot different than opening the doors to the public and running it for real. The tweaks are coming.
When is it safe or best , to display my Oiler flag again from 2006 ?
You still have it? Man I’m jealous. I have no idea where mine ended up.
Or the poster I got from Save-On-Foods(Still have it)
Heatly couldn’t find Germany on a map………….if it was a map of Germany
You mean Dany Heatley??? Two time 50 goal scorer and team Canada’s all time leading scorer? That Dany Heatley?
Can we stop the Big Sexy nickname already? Honestly it’s gone from annoying to a nervous twitch on my left eye when I see it. Please baggedmilk stop the nonsense.
Is it because you want to be called Big Sexy?
#Bigsexyforever
And ever and ever
I miss BigSexies shiner. It added to his already elite level sexiness and bad assness.
Also, he’s good at hockey.
It would be fun to go back on ON and re-read all of the experts talking about the RW position as belonging to Eberle by divine right, how Connor’s LW belonged to Lucic just because and how Drai was seen by many here as inferior to Nuge.
Drai is the second-best player on this team. I said it last summer and I’m glad to be right.
Remember how the oilers drafted a soft player who skated like Bambi, he was too slow and soft to ever be effective in the NHL? Remember how much better Sam Bennet was going to be?
I member.
If I remember correctly Drai was ranked higher than Bennett
I was one of them, and I have never been happier to be wrong. Big Sexy has really worked at his game and damn is he good. McT did do a few things correctly.
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Bennett has 60 points in his career. Leon has 61 points this season.
But that Bennett sure is scrappy, eh.