Caufield 16G in his last 18GP

[Essenege]

impressive but super small sample size and very unsustainable shooting %. Will probably finish around 40 goals unless he starts to put more pucks on net once his Shooting % stabilizes.

To answer your question, Stamkos scored 16 in 17 games from March 14th - April 17th last year. Not a super rare thing.

S% fluctuate but he has the shot quality to have 2-3 outlier seasons in his career around 18% (Matthews’ S% last year for example) which on 300 shots would yield 54 goals. With the start he has it could very well be one of those seasons.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Yes cause Hischier has been in his prime for the last 3 years. Caufield is entering it you could see similar raise in his amount of shots.

Yeah no argument there. I think Caufield should be able to at least scare 40 goals more often than not over the next 3-5 years.

 

[Frank Drebin]

No matter how much we hate the habs we cannot deny this guys talent.

we can and have tried

 

[Essenege]

League average is around 9-10% for shooting percentage, so its not an unsustainable low percentage.

For Caufield, absolutely. He has a top 10 shot in the league, you should expect him to have a shot % like Debrincat 12-15% average with outlier seasons 9-10% on the downside and 17-18% on the upside

 

[Herby]

I'm not sure how sustainable his 31% shooting percentage is this year, but I'm here for it.

Well, he's not going to score 73 goals.

But as someone else mentioned, he had an ridiculously low shooting% last year and sometimes things find a way of evening out.

If he had shot last year what he shot the year before (16.5%) he would have scored 52 goals, and my guess is that he probably ends up with around that many this season (if he stays healthy). Just very few players with the combo of skill and smarts he possesses.

I've been adding to the discussion, you just don't like the addition.

Flexing the "mod" muscles is hilarious here, should just move the thread to the Montreal board.

Here is some stats about Caufield so you can be happy.

Caufield has some bad play driving stats and is getting caved in at 5v5.

He's currently shooting at ~2 goals above expected.

He should likely be closer to 6 in 9 which is still a good number, but really not that impressive.

Congrats for the early success Caufield and Montreal.

The old "play driving" stuff. What does it matter, he's not a play-driver. This would be like criticizing a homerun hitters defense or batting average. Are you old enough to remember Brett Hull? He wasn't a "play-driver" either, he was paid to find space in the offensive zone and pump the opposing teams net full of goals. If Caufield hits his ceiling he has a chance to be a similar player.

To often on this forum people just hyper-focus on what players can't do and don't focus enough on extraordinary talents that players have. That is why "well rounded" players who can't shoot a puck into the ocean are beloved and offensive players are not.

The same thing happened on this forum with Quinn Hughes, lets ignore his world-class skating and off-the-charts offensive zone IQ and ability and focus instead on his shortcomings.

Never made much sense to me, but it's been the case on this forum for 20 years.

 

[Wayfarer13]

we can and have tried

And yah keep looking silly

 

[BlueAzN]

Lets trade Marner for him.

 

[benfranklin]

The healing period expected for that kind of surgery is expected to be what? The biggest thing from last year with him us we had no reports of reinjuring the shoulder. He is still early in his career to point to the lows and say that is his station.

Apparently its April 2nd decided on by the OP and other posters here referencing a noticeable difference in the whip of his shot. Like what lol?! The armchair GM decided his shoulder was fully healed and decided to make a post cherry picking an exact date because he scored that day compared to the game before when he didnt.

Dude is hot AF scoring in 8 of 9. Lets celebrate and watch that instead of asking to be ridiculed for going back to a random date in the middle of last season 7 months ago.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Lets trade Marner for him.

What are you adding?

 

[BlueAzN]

What are you adding?

A bag of Leafs branded hockey pucks. I mean you're already getting the better player.

 

[Wayfarer13]

Apparently its April 2nd decided on by the OP and other posters here referencing a noticeable difference in the whip of his shot. Like what lol?! The armchair GM decided his shoulder was fully healed and decided to make a post cherry picking an exact date because he scored that day compared to the game before when he didnt.

Dude is hot AF scoring in 8 of 9. Lets celebrate and watch that instead of asking to be ridiculed for going back to a random date in the middle of last season 7 months ago.

Middle of last season would have been January

 

[GrandmaCookie]

No 9 is up