Jack Hughes and Boldy. That's it.For his career:
2nd in goals T-4th in points from his draft class... Guess 2019 was a rare "no first liner" year
He hasn't been the best player on his line. That's ridiculous. He's a turnover machine, he provides zero offensive and defensive support and all He's done is get the puck in the net. The standards are so fricking low around here it's crazy.
He steals as many pucks as he gives up. He’s the only player on that line who’s been consistently dangerous on offense this year.
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Caufield needs to score and be an actual good player. It's not just scoring 6 goals that's gonna make this team win games. He's been an absolute disappointment on the ice, to the point he's a detriment unless he's shooting it from one very specific spot. He just needs to be the impact player we thought he'd be, or he needs to be moved on from. At 8m we could have a lot more talent than just a slightly worse copy of Mike Hoffman.
Yeah that's ridiculous I'm sorry. No he does not. I'll stop this right there you're not serious.
You can be sorry all you want. He’s at least generating chances consistently. We aren’t seeing that from Suzuki or Slaf this year.
Ah, now he should be good defensively, I thought his job was scoring as people kept saying last season, not passing, play the forecheck or be good defensively.
Even at 15 percent he’d still be pacing for 35 goals. That line hasn’t been great but he’s at least getting some good chances and shots in net.
If that was true he wouldn't spend 80% of his ice time in his own zone. Through 7 games this is what a typical Caufield shift 5v5 looks like: spends 40secs in his own zone, someone (not him) finally gets it out, Suzuki or Slaf get the puck in the offensive zone if they themselves don't turn it over at the blueline (they usually turn it over), someone will pass it to Cole in the O-zone. Now he has 2 options: shoot or make a play. If he shoots, 30% of the time it goes in, if it doesn't go in or if he tries to make a play, it's an immediate turnover and the habs are back to defending for the next 5min. On his line he's been the one who's killed the VAST majority of plays.
As I said, that line this season hasn’t been good as a whole. Nobody is going to dispute that. But he’s definitely been the best on that line in terms of generating offense.
I don't care what others are saying, I only speak for myself. I never said he needs to be a good defensive player, just not one of the worst in the league and if he is, he needs to score 50 goals min EVERY year like Ovechkin, not 30, not 40. We're talking about a player who's never even scored 30 goals. The goal is to win cups, i don't care if we don't have a single 40 goalscorer on the team as long as we win cups.
35 goals is simply not good enough if the rest of your games is atrocious. Like Mrb1p said, that's literally what Hoffman was (Caufield still hasn't proven he's near what Hoffman was in his prime which is ironic).
This board critiquing players and finding new reasons to do so every year? Is it supposed to be new or surprising.
The rest of his game is not atrocious.
And MrB1P was wrong.
They’ve been excellent through this career.
He should’ve had a 45-55 goal season last year. Only his shoulder prevented it. Was 48 in the previous 82. Now has something like 15 goals in his last 15 games and you’re saying his equivalent is Mike Hoffman? Sorry, no.
