It's not fancy stats. It's not 'expected' production. It was actual line production.Again, as I said, the fancy stats for the line were good.
Q’s individual performance was, and is still, wanting.
What do you mean by good “good” fringe second liner/ third liner ?No there were plenty of us who knew Kempe would be good. He was one of the only fun players to watch in those dismal years. No one said his shot would bethis good though.
Iafallo did that too. The bar shouldn’t be Trevor Moore or Iafallo. That’s the concern.It's not fancy stats. It's not 'expected' production. It was actual line production.
I think people have short memories. QB burned out towards the end of the year, but there was a good middle portion of the season where he was a major force behind driving that line.
He was playing a lot like Trevor Moore. High energy, winning puck battles, getting it to his teammates, defensively effective, but not getting production for himself.
If he struggles when the season starts, I think shaking things up makes sense, but doing it based off pre-season games seems odd.
It took awhile for young Kempe...moving him from Centre to LWing and then finally RWing with Kopi was part of the potential success! Like to see Kempe score 50 like someone else said...Great to see First rounders like Kempe have good/great successKempe becoming a really good player randomly is one of the weirdest stories on the Kings. He was a random last pick of the first round. What an anomaly. And he was a nobody for 5 years and then he started to snipe out of nowhere.