The Crypto Guy
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Player Discussion Kaapo Kakko
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NickyFotiu
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The irony in that is I believe Buch was traded more for KK to get a top 6 RW spot (at a reduced cap hit) than for Sammy Blais.
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SeanAveryTheGreatOne
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Kakko played through injury all of last year. He will be a beast this season.
NickyFotiu
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I was not aware that he started the seasons first few months injured. What injury are you referring to?
Hunter Gathers
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He's 7 months older and a full season more developed. Find another comparison as that's utter trash.
McRanger92
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Insulting to Lafreniere to compare the two at this point. Lafreniere switched positions to accomodate himself in the top 6 and had a 28 goal season and dominant playoffs.
Hunter Gathers
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Yep. The comparison is so f***ing lazy and is just a complete joke.
Literally the only thing remotely similar is the draft position. Yet these people keep on making that dumb comparison.
noncents
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i'm not comparing the two players. the bullshit from impatient and ignorant fans who want to ship out young talent for cents on the dollar is identical tho
NYRFANMANI
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iirc the cap was given as a reason, which was kinda bs. Buch would have signed with us at the same price, and we could have fitted that.
Whatever the plan was, they threw it out the window after one year.
Signing Trocheck, added another top-six player.
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7 months and one year of development doesn't make the comparison "utter trash." We are talking about two very young players who haven't developed on the timeline we anticipated.
FWIW, I'm not claiming "just give it one more year and we will see Kakko do what Lafreniere did." I would agree they are different tiers as players at this point.
I'm just saying we just witnessed an unexpected jump not even a full calendar year ago. It would not be surprising to see a relatively unexpected improvement from Kakko.
LOFIN
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Frankly, if Kakko just goes back to what he did in 2022-2023, that's pretty good value for 2.4mil.
Hunter Gathers
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Depends on whether he is a passenger as per usual or can actually contribute himself.
On the contrary. It would be very surprising to see a guy who has literally not changed his game an ounce to all of a sudden take a major step forward.
NickyFotiu
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You are right that the cap was the significant reason but we also had invested high draft picks in Krav, Chytil, Laf, and Kaapo so there was going to also be a possible top 6 position crunch. The hope was that one of our high draft picks would fill that top line role at a reduced cap cost.
NYRFANMANI
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Such a shame. Every time we go down this line of names ... of our rebuild generation. I just shake my head at the rebuild.
2017: Lias bustaroni, Chytil totally fine for his position, almost steal, if he stays healthy.
2018: Krav Bust Inc., Key ok, still potential homerun, Lundkvist, bust-ish.
2019: The Kaapo enigma, the Robertson files, Hendrikson bust.
2020: Alfi turning the corner, Schneider solidness, Cuylle, looks to be a great draft for once.
2021: Othmann is great, don't think anybody else from that draft will amount to much.
NickyFotiu
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The more recent picks look much better than those earlier picks. We also did get a #1 pick for Lundkvist.
Chmelar is a pretty good bet to play even if it’s on a 4th line.
2020 also has a few other guys like Berard, Garand and this boards folk hero Rempe. That one may end up being really fruitful.
Mandar
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NYRFANMANI
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I mean, I don't have to explain, that the most recent picks are too recent to evaluate properly.
Much love for Sykora. But I was talking about our many 1st and 2nd rd picks, that were supposed to be the next core.
Much love for Sykora. But I was talking about our many 1st and 2nd rd picks, that were supposed to be the next core.
Crease
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Kakko needs to be traded to the Helsinki of Canada, wherever that is. Winnipeg?
NYRFANMANI
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Not kidding. I also thought the Peg.
Dude steps off the plane. Looks into the vast eternity of frozen tundra.
*sigh of relief* "I'm home". And goes on to beast 70 pts.
He’s an actual nhl player.
Even if he hated living in the us, he’s still making millions of dollars,
and plenty of us would work in a job we’ve trained for 15+ years, make huge sums but in a bad location.
LOFIN
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Why are you shocked? Why the f*** would he sign in Europe, when he's clearly an NHL level player? He got a contract pretty fast didn't he?
