One year of Reaves and Kakko has turned into a slayer in the offseason....
Plus 43 points in 47 games in 2020-21.
Well, They had similar years last year, Kakko being injured aside. And similar playoffs aside from Newhook being scratched way more, so "worse player"? I disagree. I see way more upside in Kakko and hasn't Newhook had concussion issues? Or am I mistaken? In any case I would not trade Kakko straight up for Newhook. But that's me.
I was talking about Zegras... whom we would have drafted had we not won the lotto.
wouldn't this same kind of open-endedness apply to a 1c as well? or a 1g?
Ah! Well I got that wrong. Right now yeah, I'd make that trade. I do wonder how it would look in two years though. I think he and Hughes are two players who developed more quickly.
igor alone is part of the reason to expect regression, he won this team about ten games they had no business winning and most of it was early on with that putrid roster, but you will not have the strome and bread marriage early, there will be trials all over with laf figuring if he can be the top rw and then kravtsov and kakko trying to find their places on the middle rw spots. pp1 that they leaned on so much will be changed and need to find its footing again. there will just be a lot of adjustments here. they will be a playoff team but i think people should be prepared for some regression with the wins while they find their footing and determine what holes they need to plug. it is different with a more vet group having this kind of role adjustment, these are a lot of kids moving around in the forward group, 4 of your top 9 forwards are looking for traction with their position in the lineup with chytil the possible exception since he seems locked in again as the 3c.
i dont chalk this up to simple production, i never have with players. panarin produces like a 1st liner, in the playoffs he was a 4th line pp specialist.
i also think this points to the fact fox and lindgren just work well together and know how to play to each others strengths. lindgren is very good and moving/luring bodies away from fox and fox getting open to get the puck back and facilitate the zone exits. that kind of stuff doesnt show up in stats. zone exits sometimes are more about the partners being able to avoid the forecheck together in tandem then they are about just one guy doing it. hell, nemeth paired with fox for a couple games and fox couldnt get out of a wet bag bc his partner kept himself in bad position to be an option other teams had to respect or that he tossed grenades at fox for lane shifts on breakouts. the lindy fox pairing just works.
Doubt anyone would take Gauthier. I think hes been shopped heavily to no avail.
Lol you have WAYYYY too much time on your hands
Why McCarron? Is he gonna save us cap money somehow? Rather get a pick somehow that we can use at the TDL to grab some players like we did thhis past year.
It was Newhook's first full season at age 21 and he scored .46 points per game. And he can play center, which we desperately need a young one or two of in the organization. He wouldn't fit in our top 9? Balderdash.
Lol man
