Who finishes with more career points - Ryan Nugent Hopkins or J.T. Miller?

[WarriorofTime]

A couple players from the 2011 NHL Draft. RNH has a lead right now, but can J.T. Miller catch him.

Career to date

Ryan Nugent-Hopins: 699 points in 881 career games (0.793 PPG)
JT Miller: 639 points in 799 career games 0.79975 PPG)

Players are 31 years old.

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[rypper]

JT.

 

[BoHorvat 53]

Insane to think the Nuge is 31 years old.

 

[geebster]

RNH is 31?? Holy

Also obviously JT

 

[SillyRabbit]

The player who has more points in fewer games while also being significantly better offensively.

 

[CanadienShark]

The player who has more points in fewer games while also being significantly better offensively.

Which one would that be? Cause neither meets your criteria.

 

[DitchMarner]

Insane to think the Nuge is 31 years old.

RNH is 31?? Holy

Also obviously JT

That feels about right actually.

Does he feel older or younger to you?

 

[Canovin]

While RNH is pretty vanilla, he will age better

 

[Aqualung]

While RNH is pretty vanilla, he will age better

I’d say opposite is true.

 

[Toby91ca]

The player who has more points in fewer games while also being significantly better offensively.

What does this mean? The player with more points has played more games....their PPG is almost identical though.

My opinion is that this would be a total guess, almost impossible to predict.

 

[On The Prowl]

Depends on who stays healthier, RNH will feed of that powerplay for as long as McDavid is there.

 

[acor]

Nuge. Miller is a better player, but the gap might be too big to catch up.

 

[JKG33]

My heart says Miller. He's a far better player and can carry a line.

But with the lead RNH already has, and getting to leech off McDrai, he probably hangs on

 

[Regal]

Probably RNH. I doubt Miller will be a 100 point player again, and if he’s roughly a PPG for another couple years, that might not even be enough to bridge the current gap. I could see RNH aging better as well because he doesn’t throw the body like JT and assuming McDavid and Draisaitl stay in Edmonton, he’ll likely continue to rack up PP points even as he gets old.

 

[MasterofGrond]

I think at age 31 it's probably just a smart bet to go with the guy in the lead.

If the question were "who will score more points over the rest of their career", I'd probably take Miller.

 

[geebster]

That feels about right actually.

Does he feel older or younger to you?

Feels younger to me. I still think of him as one of the next gen of upcoming players.

 

[dirtydanglez]

miller is playing much better and 60 points isn't much to make up

 

[La Bamba]

Feels younger to me. I still think of him as one of the next gen of upcoming players.

probably has to do with his baby face and that he played on the U23 Team North America world cup team

 

[BoHorvat 53]

That feels about right actually.

Does he feel older or younger to you?

He feels younger - I thought he was in his mid-to-late 20s

 

[CanadienShark]

That feels about right actually.

Does he feel older or younger to you?

Yep, I mean he was drafted 13 years ago. Maybe it's just because he still looks so young. It makes me feel old though, even though I'm younger than RNH.

 

[biturbo19]

The answer to this is entirely contingent on what happens with McDavey and Draisaitl in Edmonton. If they stay, i think it'll be hard for JT Miller to close that gap before the end. It's not huge and he's been making inroads for a while now, but it's still there and i don't get the impression JT Miller is going to be one of those "tack on extra years as a compiler" sort of players. Whereas Nuge absolutely will be.


If Nuge is divorced from either or both of McDavid and Draisaitl after their current contracts run out...JT Miller should be able to easily slip past him.

 

[wetcoast]

Probably RNH. I doubt Miller will be a 100 point player again, and if he’s roughly a PPG for another couple years, that might not even be enough to bridge the current gap. I could see RNH aging better as well because he doesn’t throw the body like JT and assuming McDavid and Draisaitl stay in Edmonton, he’ll likely continue to rack up PP points even as he gets old.

That's my feeling as well as nuge has 60 points on miller but obviously health matters here.

The answer to this is entirely contingent on what happens with McDavey and Draisaitl in Edmonton. If they stay, i think it'll be hard for JT Miller to close that gap before the end. It's not huge and he's been making inroads for a while now, but it's still there and i don't get the impression JT Miller is going to be one of those "tack on extra years as a compiler" sort of players. Whereas Nuge absolutely will be.


If Nuge is divorced from either or both of McDavid and Draisaitl after their current contracts run out...JT Miller should be able to easily slip past him.

Do people really think that either McDavid or Draisaitl leaves the Oilers any time soon?

 

[biturbo19]

That's my feeling as well as nuge has 60 points on miller but obviously health matters here.


Do people really think that either McDavid or Draisaitl leaves the Oilers any time soon?

I don't think it's likely per se. But Leon's got a year left after this to UFA. McDavey has two years left to UFA.

If things haven't gone right for them by that point...they may see the writing on the wall and jump ship. Who knows. Main thing is just...that's the only way RNH is going to be able to stand a chance at sustaining his lead over Miller. Leeching points off that, and basically just outlasting JT Bozo who will probably just straight up quit when he's no longer at the top of his game and competitive.

 

[McVespa99]

The player who has more points in fewer games while also being significantly better offensively.

The player that has more points has played more games......

 

[Rafafouille]

Nuge. Being both 31 60 points is too much of a gap to make up. JT would need another 2 100 points seasons with Nuge getting 70 pts just to tie Nuge.