The Arizona Coyotes winger ranks second among all NHL rookies in scoring this season.
Unheralded and undersized rookie Matias Maccelli stole the show once again on Monday evening as the Arizona Coyotes played host to Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers at Mullett Arena.
But here’s the thing: Maccelli missed 18 games due to an injury earlier this season. While Beniers has 50 points in 71 games, good for a 0.70 points-per-game pace, Maccelli has 43 in 57 — enough to put him in the rookie scoring lead on a per-game basis.. On average, they’ve both scored 2.2 points per hour at 5-on-5 this season. Where Maccelli has a wide edge is on the power play, where he’s generating 6.6 points per 60 — nearly double Beniers’ rate.
Here is the full list of players with more assists per hour in all situations than Maccelli this season: Nikita Kucherov, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Leon Draisaitl, Matthew Tkachuk, Mitch Marner, Kevin Fiala, Artemi Panarin, Elias Pettersson, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.This year’s Calder Trophy race almost harkens to the year 2015, when two similar young star forwards were going head-to-head in a competitive field.
It’s more than a little premature to equate Beniers with Stone and Maccelli with Gaudreau. Comparables aside, you can’t go wrong with either player. What might end up sealing the deal in favor of Beniers is that his team will almost certainly make the playoffs; meanwhile, the Coyotes are in the basement by design.
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