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F Cole Caufield (2019, 15th, MTL) Part 5

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koyvoo said:
I think you’re going to see every player in Montreal look terrible this season, almost like a Buffalo last season.

It will be tough enough for even proven vets like Petry to tread water, let alone 20 year old boys.
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why tho
 
He was sent down because he isn't ready to an every day NHL player. He has one point in 10 games and is a -3. He needs to work on his game and become a better all around player. This is the smart move. He is undersized and you need to bring more to the table than a good shot on PP. Development isn't some straight up line. He is still very young and should be in the AHL. Kind of reminds me of Brad Marchand trajectory - Marchand spent 2 years in AHL and came into the NHL full time at 22 and put up 20+ goals. Some players need more time.
 
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I think he will still be a good player, it'll just take longer to get there than people who predicted the world for him after a tiny sample thought.
It's always funny to see the most aggressively homerish Habs fans from the summer suddenly so quiet.
 
As a US hockey fan I'm a bit bummed out. Caufield is a very easy player to root for and I don't think the States are loaded with pure scorers for future international competitions, so I'm very much in his corner.

I'm not sure that this particular decision is the wrong one right now, but I do worry that Montreal might not be the best organization for Caufield's long-term development. Not at all in love with this Bergevin/Ducharme/Timmins brain trust frankly, if I were Molson I'd be taking a serious look at Jeff Gorton.
 
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Ed Ned and Leddy said:
As a US hockey fan I'm a bit bummed out. Caufield is a very easy player to root for and I don't think the States are loaded with pure scorers for future international competitions, so I'm very much in his corner.

I'm not sure that this particular decision is the wrong one right now, but I do worry that Montreal might not be the best organization for Caufield's long-term development. Not at all in love with this Bergevin/Ducharme/Timmins brain trust frankly, if I were Molson I'd be taking a serious look at Jeff Gorton.
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Neither are Habs fans.
 
NHL is a big (bad:thumbu:) boy league - not a feel good story for Montreal-fans wet dreams to drool about cool little Cole Caufields makin' magic to; and that from the word go. Of course we ain't seen nothing yet of what that American collegehockey boy (Caufield) actually can do on ice, in the long run that is.

He probably will end up in the same vein like a chap like Eeli Tolvanen of Nashville Predators fame - who was forced to do it into to the NHL the real, real hard way. Eeli Tolvanen is a ice cold sniper about the same height and size and skills of Caufield - but it took years for him to became a real NHL-predator.

 
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Cole will be fine. This is probably the best move for him though, he's not ready to be driver at the NHL level and he needs to get his swagger back.

Let him torch the AHL for a while and then see if maybe the Habs aren't a gigantic tire fire after the new year, then you can put him in a situation to succeed.

The Ducks did this with Zegras last year and it made a big difference.
 
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This doesn’t mean he isn’t going to be a regular NHLer but as we’ve seen time and time again with MTL canadians prospects. He was overhyped.
He joins the long list of guys like Kotkaniemi (hes lucky he got out when he did), Juulson, Mete, Poheling, brook, Scherbak, McCarron, Galchenyuk…. etc, etc, etc.
 
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I haven't seen much of his play, but they gave him 10 games, stats don't look good.

My approach would be to tell him you'll be playing for Laval for the next X amount of games no matter what. Go get more comfortable and put up some numbers. We will have a discussion then.
 
Vinegar Strokes said:
Cole will be fine. This is probably the best move for him though, he's not ready to be driver at the NHL level and he needs to get his swagger back.

Let him torch the AHL for a while and then see if maybe the Habs aren't a gigantic tire fire after the new year, then you can put him in a situation to succeed.

The Ducks did this with Zegras last year and it made a big difference.
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Zegras has 5 points with the most comfortable usage you could imagine, sit down.
 
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This is clearly the best move at this point. I don’t buy the star hype with Caufield at all - too small and too slow to hit that level, sorry Habs fans - but his shot and offensive instincts are simply too good to not be a quality complementary guy soon. He’ll get some confidence back in the AHL before almost certainly finishing the year back in the Canadiens’ top-6.
 
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Vinegar Strokes said:
Cole will be fine. This is probably the best move for him though, he's not ready to be driver at the NHL level and he needs to get his swagger back.

Let him torch the AHL for a while and then see if maybe the Habs aren't a gigantic tire fire after the new year, then you can put him in a situation to succeed.

The Ducks did this with Zegras last year and it made a big difference.
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He will never be a line driver, but he will be a pretty good passenger that pots a lot of goals in if everything works out.
 
This happens so frequently - new players come into the league and tear it up until other teams start keying in on them.

Hoglander has 0 goals as well
 
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