Please show me which past cup champions team in the last 20 years had a guy like caufield as a sniper? Caufield is a complement to a 2nd line, he cant win 1v1 battles and in playoffs he will have even less time than now.
“A guy like Caufield as a sniper” - so now you’re going to argue that there are no five foot seven snipers who’ve won cups… guess what? I doesn’t matter. The keyword here is ‘sniper’.
I don’t give a shit how big he is, he scores goals. And he had no issues doing it as a raw rookie in the playoffs.
Scoring goals wins you cups. That’s how it works. At the end of the game you tally up the goals scored and the team who scored the most wins the game.
Mike Bossy, Guy Lafleur, Geordie Howe, Martin St Louis, Jaromir Jagr, Rocket Richard, Alex Ovechkin, Patrick Kane…all played very different games from one another. Each were unique and played their own way. But they all scored goals and all won cups doing it. At the end of the day what matters is if you can put the puck in the net or not.
As I said, CC is mostly unproven. I’m certainly not saying he’s the next Mike Bossy. But there’s every indication that he could be a premier scorer in this league. That’s not something you dump or cast off. Goals are the single most important thing a skater can contribute - I don’t think you’re placing enough value on this.
