Kucherov Hattrick

[TheBeastCoast]

No hate at all but him standing past the red line after getting the first empty netter is legit hilarious. I respect that level of stat hunting.

 

[Sky04]

No hate at all but him standing past the red line after getting the first empty netter is legit hilarious. I respect that level of stat hunting.

That he knows how to read the play? How does the puck magically appear up there?

 

[TheBeastCoast]

That he knows how to read the play? How does the puck magically appear up there?

Going to make a wild guess it was passed to him. Going on a limb here.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

was robbed of MVP last year

 

[The Panther]

Kucherov is probably one of the greatest wingers of all time. That being said, I wish him not to win another Art Ross on EN points.

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

 

[Peasy]

My fantasy team thanks him

 

[authentic]

was robbed of MVP last year

Not sure how you can say that with the season MacKinnon had

 

[These Are The Days]

Kucherov scores into an empty net:

"OMG SO STUPID
DOESNT EVEN COUNT
EMPTY NET MERCHANT"

Crosby and Gretzky both do it over 80 times

"Yaaahhhhsssss
Slay King!"

It's freaking stupid.

 

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[Nikki Potnick]

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[LOFIN]

Why is this a thread?

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

Here's a sample of some of the top players and their empty net point stats (numbers from lockout to end of last season). Kucherov fits right in with the others, almost like the the naysayers are just haters.

	GP	Pts	ENP	ENP/GP	ENP/Pts
Crosby	1272	1596	80	.063	.050
Ovechkin	1426	1550	72	.050	.046
Marchand	1029	929	64	.062	.069
Bergeron	1294	1040	60	.046	.058
Mackinnon	791	899	46	.058	.051
Rantanen	570	617	46	.080	.075
Kucherov	725	873	45	.062	.052
Draisaitl	719	850	45	.063	.053
McDavid	645	982	45	.070	.046

 

[Mattilaus]

My fantasy team doesn't care if a goalie was in net or not. Yay Kuch!

 

[The Panther]

I think the difference between Gretzky and Crosby here is not how many career EN points Kucherov has per-game or whatever (which is entirely normal), but that he effectively won the 2024 Art Ross trophy on EN points. That is, if he'd posted his career-average EN points last season (say, 5 or 6) he probably doesn't win the Art Ross.

Gretzky could have had no empty-net points and still won Art Rosses by, like, 75 points. I can't speak to Crosby's EN points, but I don't think he ever had an obscene number (did he?).

Fair-play with the empty-net points and everything, but I just personally don't want them to decide scoring titles. It's nothing against Kucherov, whom I like.

 

[bleedgreen]

As a Canes fan I’m supposed to hate the guy but I’ve loved watching him over his career….but man he’s making it tougher lately. His lazy nonchalance in the all star thing was pretty infuriating as a fan. He had no effs to give and a floating ego can be tough to root for.

Last night he sat on the far blue line with his team defending in their zone waiting to get his empty net hat trick. People talk about him like that but I never truly believed it until I saw that. I don’t believe in asterisks but when we talk about him in terms of history a decade from now it’s going to hard to not remember that image.

 

[njdevils1982]

Interesting, it's happened more than I expected, especially post lockout. Grabner being on there is the least surprising lol

the ultimate trojan horse trade by the rangers...grabner was absolute f***ing trash in new jersey