Kucherov has recently joined the career 100 point pace club

[olli]

The last few months Kucherov has joined Crosby and McDavid as the only active members of the career 100 point pace club. For Kucherov this is especially impressive given the slow start to his career that featured a rookie season with only 18 points in 52 games followed by 65 and 66 point seasons before he really got the ball rolling. MacKinnon and Draisaitl aren’t far off from joining this club too and had similarly slow starts to their careers relative to where they’ve been the last 6+ seasons. It’s very rare to see players maintain a 100 point career pace over 700+ games but are there are other players that have done it with such slow starts to their careers?

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[tabness]

He'd like to thank God, his family, his coaches and teammates, and empty nets everywhere

 

[olli]

He'd like to thank God, his family, his coaches and teammates, and empty nets everywhere

Oh yeah without those empty nets he’d be at a career 98 point pace

 

[SillyRabbit]

He has an argument for top 3 Russian player of all time.

Just an insanely elite offensive talent.

 

[SatanicToedrag]

Oh yeah without those empty nets he’d be at a career 98 point pace

Pathetic

 

[Coffee]

Unparalleled vision on the ice, coupled with a hockey IQ that seems to border on precognition, is what sets him apart.

Kucherov is the ultimate big game player

 

[Acallabeth]

Your favorite person's favorite player.

 

[TheLegend27]

He probably has the highest Hockey IQ since Crosby along with being arguably the best passer in league. I’m glad guys like him exist to show that you can keep up with McDavid & MacKinnon without using speed.

 

[The Panther]

I've rarely seen a forward who looks as slick and smooth as Kucherov does, in such a deliberate way. Whereas someone like Draisaitl likes to stop the play and then start it again at his pace, and McDavid and MacKinnon exist to terrorize defenders with super high-speed plays, Kucherov is like water in the Kung Fu / yin-yang sense --- he just goes with the flow and makes slow and slick plays regardless of the pace going on around him.

Mario Lemieux sometimes looked like that, and of course all the great players have the ability to "slow down" the pace of the game to their own preferred speed. But, I dunno, Kucherov seems to make the most soft and deliberate plays of any major forward, and yet he makes it work. A lot of this is down to super-high hockey IQ, of course.

Kucherov and Elias Pettersson (when he isn't sucking) are the players that remind me the most of Wayne Gretzky.

(And yeah, the empty-net thing is starting to get weird. Last year, he racked up the EN goals, and this year it's assists. All fair game, I guess.)

 

[Dingo]

couldnt agree more about the Gretzky comparison. Both players.