C Connor McMichael - London Knights, OHL (2019, 25th, WSH)

[Starry Knight]

Pretty much every dimension of his game has significantly improved from last year.

He's always had a good shot, but now his release is lethal, and he's able to use his improved skating to create space when attacking defenders.

 

[EXTRAS]

Currently on pace for best OHL season since Patrick Kane in 2006-07. Sure he'll drop off a lot, but still pretty insane.

 

[lilmaxo]

Fact that he has 19 more points than anyone else on the team is kinda impressive!

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Currently on pace for best OHL season since Patrick Kane in 2006-07. Sure he'll drop off a lot, but still pretty insane.

a bit, not a lot, at least i think that way. 2.53 ppg at the moment. A lot would mean u 2.00 ppg at end of the season.
personally, i don't believe he will drop u 2.00. Might have ups and downs where it goes under,
but he's gonna have another 2.50-3.00 ppg tear at one point.

 

[GoCaps2004]

Fact that he has 19 more points than anyone else on the team is kinda impressive!

He doubles up the second best scorer on the team, which makes his numbers seem even more impressive. He's at 38 points, ahead of the next best at 19.

 

[EXTRAS]

a bit, not a lot, at least i think that way. 2.53 ppg at the moment. A lot would mean u 2.00 ppg at end of the season.
personally, i don't believe he will drop u 2.00. Might have ups and downs where it goes under,
but he's gonna have another 2.50-3.00 ppg tear at one point.

Finishing the season at 2 ppg over the entire season would still be one of the best seasons over the past few years. I think his 6 point game has bloated the still small sample size (15gp) up a bit. If he dropped from his current 2.54 ppg and finished around 2.2 ppg it would still be one of the best OHL seasons of the past decade.

 

[EXTRAS]

3 points half way through the 1st period tonight. It's getting ridiculous.

 

[GoCaps2004]

pretty nice move to score there



then a great pass

 

[Snippit]

So 26 points in 8 games (7 and a third at the time of this post).

Pretty unreal.

 

[Sasquatchbreath]

Was hoping the Canucks would trade up into the first round to snag him. What a season he’s having

 

[Artorius Horus T]

So 26 points in 8 games (7 and a third at the time of this post).

******* unreal!.

Fixed it for ya

 

[Evgeny Oliker]

My question is can McMichael play wing?

Reason why I ask is I'm trying to figure out where he will fit in with Caps. They will likely re-sign Backstrom and then they have Kuznetsov. Doesn't leave room at Center for McMichael in the top 6...

 

[Barry Amsterdam]

Backstrom will probably center the 3rd like by the time he’s ready to be a legit top 6 Center.

 

[Alex K]

My question is can McMichael play wing?

Reason why I ask is I'm trying to figure out where he will fit in with Caps. They will likely re-sign Backstrom and then they have Kuznetsov. Doesn't leave room at Center for McMichael in the top 6...

What's the problem for a 19-years old to play as a 3C?

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Insane start to the year.

 

[discobob]

Backstrom will probably center the 3rd like by the time he’s ready to be a legit top 6 Center.

My thoughts exactly. McMichael doesn't need to come into a top 6 role. Having a 3rd line scoring center is a good option. Eventually flip Backstom down to the third line to make a "shutdown & outscore" line.

Eller would be an excellent 4th line center OR his contract is easily tradeable.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Connor McMichael and Aliaksei Protas in the 2019 draft following Alexander Alexeyev and Martin Fehervary in the 2018 draft. Pretty good.

 

[GTA]

Connor McMichael and Aliaksei Protas in the 2019 draft following Alexander Alexeyev and Martin Fehervary in the 2018 draft. Pretty good.

or pretty bad. We won't know for several years.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

or pretty bad. We won't know for several years.

Pretty true.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

or pretty bad. We won't know for several years.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[third man in]

or pretty bad. We won't know for several years.

Possibly although at the moment they are all playing above their draft slots. Its looking promising for all 4 of them.

 

[Sam Spade]

Was hoping the Canucks would trade up into the first round to snag him. What a season he’s having

And I was praying the Capitals would get Hoglander who didn't go to the Canucks for 15 more picks.

 

[1967th Heaven]

McMichael is scoring at the highest rate in the OHL since another Connor Mc____ did it back in 2014-15. Prior to that you'd have to go back to Kane in 06-07 to find a higher scoring pace, that's pretty damn good company even if it has only been 18 games and he's likely to slow down.

To me, the most impressive part is that he has almost doubled the production of his next highest scoring teammate. It seems that normally when you see a guy ripping up the CHL you won't have to scroll too far down the league scoring leaderboard to see one or two of his teammates, but that certainly is not the case here.

 

[Dominance]

McMichael is scoring at the highest rate in the OHL since another Connor Mc____ did it back in 2014-15. Prior to that you'd have to go back to Kane in 06-07 to find a higher scoring pace, that's pretty damn good company even if it has only been 18 games and he's likely to slow down.

To me, the most impressive part is that he has almost doubled the production of his next highest scoring teammate. It seems that normally when you see a guy ripping up the CHL you won't have to scroll too far down the league scoring leaderboard to see one or two of his teammates, but that certainly is not the case here.
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London wasn’t supposed to be nearly this good this year. He’s been extremely impressive. Everyone is waiting for the inevitable drop-off, but we’ll just have to see. It would be fantastic for him to confirm his hype by having a monster WJC.

 

[koalabear9301]