Why do you just assume me and
@dgibb10 are bias Rangers fans? He's a hardcore Devils fan so he hates the Rangers passionately and I'm a Flames fan so I have no connection to them outside of hating Fox. Please do not refer to Kakko "my guy."
You are right Kakko had a shit season last year production wise. What is factual though is he had 40 points just the year prior so look for why that drop-off might have happened. First thing I notice is the over 2:1 goal to assist ratio. He's not exactly known to be a sniper and all his other seasons indicate he generally scored a similar amount of goals and assists. Delving a bit further on why his A/60 might have fallen off I see that he had far less consistency in linemates. He went from playing over 600 5v5 minutes with Chytil and Lafreniere in 22/23 to barely over 300 minutes with Will Cuylle only last year. With the return of Chytil I would expect a big uptick in his production.
Also bringing up their games played is laughable, Kakko only played 5 more games. Not to mention saying things like "barely outscore" when he has nearly double the production is silly too. I'm not going to bother talking to you about your calling Struble a "rookie
defensive defenseman" because that's already been proven wrong to you. All I will say is maybe you should look up who Alex Vlasic is for a real rookie defensive defenseman.