Hope good is Marco Rossi?

[Agent Zuuuub]

Legit 1st line C? 2nd line C?

And how good can he become?

He was one of my favorites in the 2020 draft because he reminded me so much of Alfredsson and Zetterberg, a heart and soul future two way captain.

Although I haven't seen him play much i love that his numbers are trending into their territory.

So how close is he to becoming an elite player and do you think he gets there? Where do you rank him among centers currently?

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[PeteEakins]

He'll top out as a slightly better 06-07 Pierre-Marc Bouchard (better at goal scoring).

He's 5'9. You can't project much higher than that. If anything, you need to be realistic about his health past 32-33 given the rigours of the NHL.

 

[MuckOG]

Legit 1st line C? 2nd line C?

And how good can he become?

He was one of my favorites in the 2020 draft because he reminded me so much of Alfredsson and Zetterberg, a heart and soul future two way captain.

Although I haven't seen him play much i love that his numbers are trending into their territory.

So how close is he to becoming an elite player and do you think he gets there? Where do you rank him among centers currently?

Long term, I see him in the 65-75 point season totals on average (more or less depending on his PP usage) and being a solid #2C.

 

[BagHead]

I once thought he'd be a guy who could put up 80 points while providing two-way play in his best years, and ranked him highly in his draft as a result. I then lowered my expectations to 60 points and mediocre two-way play (more due to his lack of size and strength than his willingness) at his peak. Now that he has become stronger and faster I'm readjusting once more to 80 points and good two-way play in his best years.

He's a good #2 center, and could become a baseline #1 center, but probably not an elite one. Probably, because at this point I can't count him out because all he's done is overcome everything thrown at him and done everything asked of him, and more. He trends up year after year, and those are guys to watch out for as they can become late bloomers.

 

[57special]

He keeps surprising me with his ability to overcome obstacles such as Myocarditis, lack of size, strength, and speed. Has worked his ass off so none of them are issues. Has the ability to pick up points. Decent defensively, too. Hovering around 50% on FO's...not great, but better than most young C's.

Right now he is playing like a high end #2C/low end #1C, and there is no reason to think that he won't improve a bit. He's only 23, is a training, diet, and fitness fanatic, and isn't a partier.

 

[CaptainShark]

Not as good as Hope Hintz.

 

[Coffee]

Pope is good


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agentZub, I love ya but you can’t make that kind of typo mistake and not except to get eaten up in the thread

 

[Doomhammer]

Don't really need to hope anymore, guy is pretty good

 

[CaptainShark]

Delete please… I am thrown off by the new design

 

[CaptainShark]

Don't really need to hope anymore, guy is pretty good

Could I borrow your Yoda-English dictionary?

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Well, he's playing 1C on a top 5 team in the league, currently. But that's also mostly next to a super duper star.

I'd probably say that with decent-to-good top line wingers and #1 PP time (which he doesn't get here when we have a healthy lineup) it's a probably in the 55-65 point range. With Kaprizov and Boldy for a full year, I could definitely see PPG. He might not be as good as those two, but he's not taking a whole lot off the table with them either.

 

[archangel2]

Legit 1st line C? 2nd line C?

And how good can he become?

He was one of my favorites in the 2020 draft because he reminded me so much of Alfredsson and Zetterberg, a heart and soul future two way captain.

Although I haven't seen him play much i love that his numbers are trending into their territory.

So how close is he to becoming an elite player and do you think he gets there? Where do you rank him among centers currently?

nice title wording

 

[hangman005]

Not as good as David Rossi.....

 

[Dickie Dunn]

What do we mean by legit 1C? He will be a good bet to 65-75 consistently. Wouldn’t shock me if he finishes with 1-2 seasons north of 80 if he keeps playing with Kaprizov. But I don’t see him being an allstar at any point. Good, not great.

 

[rynryn]

yeah he's a legit #1C already. not the "best #1C on any team or top 10 or anything but definitely has the tools to produce better than the bottom tier of other teams' #1Cs.

 

[seadawg]

Legitimate question for the group...who was the last center 5'9" (or under) to score over 80 pts in the NHL?

I really like Rossi and think he may have a few seasons over 80 pts. I'm just wondering about some recent(ish) examples of other centers his size who've done it already.

 

[BagHead]

Legitimate question for the group...who was the last center 5'9" (or under) to score over 80 pts in the NHL?

I really like Rossi and think he may have a few seasons over 80 pts. I'm just wondering about some recent(ish) examples of other centers his size who've done it already.

Upon looking it up, Jon Marchessault "only" got 75 points and took 607 faceoffs in '17-18. That's pretty close, but not quite there, obviously. I think he may be the closest in recent NHL history.

Scott Gomez had an 80 point year but is listed at 5'11". I'm surprised by that because he looked smaller to me.

Honestly, I'm not sure how best to search for this, I'm mostly just going off memory here.