Player Discussion Kaapo Kakko: Part IV

[KingWongQc]

Kakko is playing solitaire in his apartment tonight.

so you're telling me that Kakko is playing tonight.... hahaha

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

so you're telling me that Kakko is playing tonight.... hahaha

Lots of turnovers

 

[MysticLeviathan]

anybody hear anything yet? does he have symptoms? or is he just chilling for a couple weeks?

 

[Harbour Dog]

Kakko is playing solitaire in his apartment tonight.

 

[CupSeeker]

Bitetto has worn out his welcome. And Blackwell is suprisingly bad in his own zone. He's an effective grinder but clueless on how to move the puck out of his own zone. This is a bad team dressed tonight and only down by one. Igor!

 

[MysticLeviathan]

I miss kakko

 

[The New Russian Five]

Bitetto has worn out his welcome. And Blackwell is suprisingly bad in his own zone. He's an effective grinder but clueless on how to move the puck out of his own zone. This is a bad team dressed tonight and only down by one. Igor!

Wrong thread?

 

[Chimpradamus]

Kakko has 26 points (12G 14A), half of them on the PP, in his first 80 games. Not exactly riveting stuff. He might look better, but the production is still not there. Oh well, if there's anything this team has it's time and patience to let the young players develop.

 

[rdhstlr23]

Kakko has 26 points (12G 14A), half of them on the PP, in his first 80 games. Not exactly riveting stuff. He might look better, but the production is still not there. Oh well, if there's anything this team has it's time and patience to let the young players develop.

Agree. That’s my beef with Kakko.

He “looks” good and better. All of his analytics agree with that. The production hasn’t come yet, but...that’s the most important piece, right?

And sometimes it doesn’t come. Sometimes a guy’s confidence gets pushed, or they change their games up to become this guy that can hang in the NHL, by doing the things to keep a job, not the creative stuff that made him a blue chip prospect.

My biggest concern with Kakko is that he will never be the player we all thought we were getting when he was drafted. Drafting a 60-65pt player is nice (quoting what I see here and on Twitter when people talk of Kakko), but that wasn’t the Bill of goods sold when he was drafted last year.

He was an immediate impact player. He was a Calder candidate. He was a franchise altering player. He hasn’t shown any of those traits, so far.

When we speculate about a trade for a guy like Eichel, and Kakko is “hang the phone up”, I see that as a missed opportunity. I get he’s on an ELC and you control him for a bit, but man...

The Covid piece stinks. You were hoping to see him to start to cash in on these good, but zero point producing, games. This isn’t his fault, but it’s one of those things where you’re like...is Zibanejad feeling ill effects of this still? Will it take Kakko that long? How long will he miss? Etc.

Before you know it, he’s played half the season and you’re on YR3 and his 20-21 age season with serious expectations.

 

[Nickmo82]

When is Kakko back? I'm just not satisfying worrying about only one of our prospects. I need more angst!

 

[Synergy27]

When is Kakko back? I'm just not satisfying worrying about only one of our prospects. I need more angst!

If this wasn’t just a contact tracing thing, which it seems like it wasn’t, he’s probably out for another what, ten days?

 

[Rongomania]

If this wasn’t just a contact tracing thing, which it seems like it wasn’t, he’s probably out for another what, ten days?

That blows. The kid was looking so damn good before this. Hopefully the team is playing better overall when he comes back. I also think there could be a domino effect down the road - Kakko starts scoring with some regularity and maybe he'll be the one who can get more points out of Laf.

really want to see a Laf/Chytil/Kak line

 

[mas0764]

Sam said tonite he has no symptoms and he could be back soon.

 

[MyLoveIsBlue]

Lemmy, "WTF was that?"

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Invisible again tonight

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Need KK update.

Heard Sam during the call said he hasn’t had any symptoms so whether it’s tracing or testing that is good to hear.

Hope he is back in tomorrow

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Need KK update.

Heard Sam during the call said he hasn’t had any symptoms so whether it’s tracing or testing that is good to hear.

Hope he is back in tomorrow

Kakko probably has to spend 10 days on the COVID list as part of the quarantine window. If it was a false positive, it would be 72 hours, like Miller.

Kakko was added to the COVID list last week Saturday, so he would have 3 days left before being allowed back on the team (again, based on the COVID timelines the NHL has mentioned before).

I hope Kakko is back sooner, but I'm counting on Monday-Tuesday

 

[Peltz]

Agree. That’s my beef with Kakko.

He “looks” good and better. All of his analytics agree with that. The production hasn’t come yet, but...that’s the most important piece, right?

And sometimes it doesn’t come. Sometimes a guy’s confidence gets pushed, or they change their games up to become this guy that can hang in the NHL, by doing the things to keep a job, not the creative stuff that made him a blue chip prospect.

My biggest concern with Kakko is that he will never be the player we all thought we were getting when he was drafted. Drafting a 60-65pt player is nice (quoting what I see here and on Twitter when people talk of Kakko), but that wasn’t the Bill of goods sold when he was drafted last year.

He was an immediate impact player. He was a Calder candidate. He was a franchise altering player. He hasn’t shown any of those traits, so far.

When we speculate about a trade for a guy like Eichel, and Kakko is “hang the phone up”, I see that as a missed opportunity. I get he’s on an ELC and you control him for a bit, but man...

The Covid piece stinks. You were hoping to see him to start to cash in on these good, but zero point producing, games. This isn’t his fault, but it’s one of those things where you’re like...is Zibanejad feeling ill effects of this still? Will it take Kakko that long? How long will he miss? Etc.

Before you know it, he’s played half the season and you’re on YR3 and his 20-21 age season with serious expectations.

He's still young. He could easily still be a franchise altering player.

 

[Zub]

He's still young. He could easily still be a franchise altering player.

The dude is obsessed and says the same thing over and over again, just look at his previous 30 posts in the Kakko thread

 

[will1066]

Any new knowledge? Still asymptomatic?

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Any new knowledge? Still asymptomatic?

Tuesday is the 10-day mark for Kakko and that's the most likely date he will be cleared.

 

[Hire Sather]

He's still young. He could easily still be a franchise altering player.

The franchise altering players usually show that by now.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

The franchise altering players usually show that by now.

People with fewer than 30 points in their D+1 season:

Kessel
Levacalier
Couturier
Shanahan
Barkov
Seguin
Lindholm
Hughes
Nedved
Doan
Draisaitl
Thornton

I'm not too worried yet. Yeah, I am frustrated that he hasn't produced more early on, and wish we had a little more to cheer for the last few weeks but anything is possible.

 

[FireGerardGallant]

The franchise altering players usually show that by now.

If you don't just look at statsheets hes been one of the Rangers best forwards this year

 

[Harbour Dog]

Also, I don't think it's a stretch to say that the only forwards that have been better when they're in the lineup are Panarin and Chytil.

Kakko took a step and was a dominating force for those few games before he was put on the protocol list. Him, Strome, and Lafreniere flatout embarassed New Jersey's top line when they got a chance to match up against them.

I really feel like I am watching different games than a large percentage of the fanbase.

edit - ugh, and this just highlights that our best three forwards have been the only ones to miss significant time... brutal.