Cole Caufield breaking out

JianYang

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Because he had Markov and Subban feeding him off the rush. IIRC, the duo combined for assists on more than 60% of Pac's goals in the time we had both Ds in the lineup.

It makes sense. Pacioretty was clinical in transition, and the guys you mentioned were excellent at long passes in transition. Petry was decent at it as well.
 
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Grate n Colorful Oz

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DeBrincat 2.0
Nope. Debrincat is a one-timer master who needs feeds and a goalie laterally scrambling for position to score, and scores a lot on the powerplay. Caufield is a master at wrist shots who scores mostly at even-strenght, often while carrying the puck, which is something Cat doesn't do nearly as regularly.

Caufield has the tools to score more goals than Cat.
 

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Nope. Debrincat is a one-timer master who needs feeds and a goalie laterally scrambling for position to score, and scores a lot on the powerplay. Caufield is a master at wrist shots who scores mostly at even-strenght, often while carrying the puck, which is something Cat doesn't do nearly as regularly.

Caufield has the tools to score more goals than Cat.
Yup. Very different players. Cat scores and is no fun to play against. He has meanness to his game. Caufield can score.
 
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I'm not sure how sustainable his 31% shooting percentage is this year, but I'm here for it.
I think healthy Cole can shoot 15ish with consistency. That's usually about the mark for a guy with an elite shot. At that rate the rest of the way, on his current average of 3 SOG per night, that would have him finish with 42 goals.

The real question is whether or not Montreal as a team can stop getting caved in every night. That's probably the biggest hinderance to his goal scoring right now.
 

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We really need to stop with these “streak” threads which combine the ending of one regular season with the beginning of that next regular season. Such a sham
 
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We really need to stop with these “streak” threads which combine the ending of one regular season with the beginning of that next regular season. Such a sham

The point of the thread is not to pretend Caufield will maintain this pace, but to illustrate that he's back to his previous ways, before his shoulder surgery.
 

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Guy has great goal scoring ability, we all saw it when he was a prospect, he dropped way too far in the draft, I threw some shit when the Flyers drafted York, even though he's been a decent steady dman. None of this is really suprising to me. Every team needs size sure, but the "size" factoring in to real talented guys dropping in the draft is becoming ridiculous, we don't live in the clutch n grab era anymore, when will GM's just realize this?
 
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