Who do you think will be the Habs next PPG player?

[Stive Morgan]

The Montreal Canadiens infamously have not had a player record a point-per-game season since Alex Kovalev in 2007-08, putting up 84 points in 82 games. And before that it was Damphousse and Turgeon in 95-96.

Which player in the Habs system do you think is most likely to break this curse? Many people seem to think Demidov. The safe bet is probably Suzuki or CC. My money is personally on Slaf.

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[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Suzuki and it's not even close

 

[waitin425]

Suzuki. But Slaf is going to be next.

 

[domiwroze]

I'd bet that both Suzuki and Slaf will do it this year.

 

[Egresch]

The Montreal Canadiens infamously have not had a player record a point-per-game season since Alex Kovalev in 2007-08, putting up 84 points in 82 games. And before that it was Damphousse and Turgeon in 95-96.

Which player in the Habs system do you think is most likely to break this curse? Many people seem to think Demidov. The safe bet is probably Suzuki or CC. My money is personally on Slaf.

Both Dach and Hutson had PPG last season . It will be a tight race among Suzuki, Laine and Slaf.

 

[Stive Morgan]

Both Dach and Hutson had PPG last season . It will be a tight race among Suzuki, Laine and Slaf.

And Mailloux as well lol

 

[Habssince89]

Suzuki is the easy favourite for many reasons, though if he's PPG, there's a more than decent chance his wingers are too (or close)

 

[Whalers Fan]

Suzuki

 

[BehindTheTimes]

We got some interesting options for this now, I’m going to say Suzuki just because he’s the furthest along and closest to reach it. I’ve always maintained that once we got a 2nd line and relieved a bit of pressure off Nick/cole/slaf that 80-90 points wouldn’t be that far fetched.

Now, I see multiple possibilities, I think Nick is the favourite, but would it surprise me if Cole Caufield did it first, not really. Same for Slaf. I think even Laine has a realistic shot assuming his head is on right and shoulder is healed. I like Kirby Dach and think he’s got some potential, but he’s the least likely out of this group imo.

 

[CanadienShark]

Suzuki is the safe bet.

 

[oberan1]

Crosby...
I know; you said "in the system" - couldn't help myself!

 

[the]

I’m going with Patrick Laine if he stays healthy all season.

 

[Seb]

Suzuki, this year.

 

[Rapala]

Suzuki already has the consistency.
He just needs to up his number of multi point games.
My guess is if he does it we may have someone else along for the ride.

 

[BLONG7]

Our PP will click this year, and we have a few guys who could do it, but The Captain is likely to be the first, but I think we could get 2 or three guys hit that mark.

 

[JianYang]

The Montreal Canadiens infamously have not had a player record a point-per-game season since Alex Kovalev in 2007-08, putting up 84 points in 82 games. And before that it was Damphousse and Turgeon in 95-96.

Which player in the Habs system do you think is most likely to break this curse? Many people seem to think Demidov. The safe bet is probably Suzuki or CC. My money is personally on Slaf.

Kovalev just had a monster season. He was top 10 in the league. Turgeon and damphousse were not.

If someone put up around a point per game today, it would also be way off of what kovalev did because it would be around 25th in league scoring.

 

[yianik]

Suzuki, this year.

Agreed. PPG this year.

 

[JoelWarlord]

Suzuki is just the obvious answer. He's a playmaker but he's still going to score ~25 goals and will be locked to our PP1 and 1st line all year. Slafkovsky covers for Suzuki's only real weaknesses on the forecheck/cycle and whenever that line goes cold they'll just swap Caufield and Laine so he'll always have a shooter.

Caufield and Laine are going to cannibalize each other's opportunities, Dach will be on the 2nd line, Slafkovsky probably still has some refinement until he gets to that level, and as good as he is, Demidov is unlikely to be an immediate PPG guy in his D+1 season.

 

[the]

Kovalev just had a monster season. He was top 10 in the league. Turgeon and damphousse were not.

If someone put up around a point per game today, it would also be way off of what kovalev did because it would be around 25th in league scoring.

Indeed, scoring is much higher than when Alexei Kovalev had his legendary season.

Getting PPG should be easy now. Getting a crack at top 10 (he finished 11th) is a whole different story.

For a player to have a similar impact to Kovalev's 2007-2008 season we are looking at around ~100 points.