Jesperi Kotkaniemi is about to shatter his career high totals in his 5th season.

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Kind of hard to complain about Habs fans not letting it go with a thread like this, meant specifically to poke fun at such fans. Time to let it go on both sides.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Kind of hard to complain about Habs fans not letting it go with a thread like this, meant specifically to poke fun at such fans. Time to let it go on both sides.

It's quite easy to complain about the Habs fans actually.

 

[beowulf]

Your definition of shattered is way different than mine. He is for sure, outside of a major injury, beat his career highs but shatter? His previous points high was 34 and is on pace for 41 so not sure 7 more points is shattering. To be shattering would be him getting 50++ points.

 

[Tufted Titmouse]

Montreals draft picks in the 1st half of the 1st round over the last 20 years:

Kk, Slafkovsky and galchenyuk are the only 'busts' and two of only 3 top 5 picks, so I don't know where all these bust you're talking about are. A

Fixed

 

[beowulf]

It just took the Canes some time to undo the Habs "development" work they did with him. There is a reason every high end player they pick fails to live up to the hype.

Sure buttercup, I am not a fan of how the Habs have done their development with some players but not exactly every high end player that has failed so please.

 

[danyhabsfan]

8 points in his last 6 games

a 5 pts and 3 pts game and 0 point in the other 4 games

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

a 5 pts and 3 pts game and 0 point in the other 4 games

I was waiting for someone to touch on that!lol

Such funny game by game stats the past little bit

 

[hirawl]

I like the way he's developing that's for sure. He keeps on putting the work in and gets a little quicker with his decision making and he'll be a heck of a player.

 

[DaPhazz]

Fixed

meHeHEhehe, betcha real proud of that one ain't ya

 

[Not The One]

a 5 pts and 3 pts game and 0 point in the other 4 games

That's KK for you. He's got points in 3 of his last 11 games. In his 5 pt game he had 4/5 on the PP against a team that had clearly given up. I checked and he had a streak of 1 point in 17 games earlier in the season.

He's still young and can certainly develop further, but I don't think the Habs are missing his contributions at all.

 

[bleedgreen]

He’s skating better. That’s the difference. It’s changed even during this season. Early on he was still falling down every time someone leaned on him. It ain’t perfect now but there’s more strength and balance which really is the key with this guy.

He’s worth the contract right now, which was really the basis of these arguments. If he’s a 40-50 pt guy who wins his draws, plays good defense, can be reasonably physical and has chemistry with his linemates then 4.8 is a good salary and I don’t mind the acquisition at all.

Which takes all the wind out of the sails of the critics imo. I’m sure we’ll still get wind though.

 

[Tufted Titmouse]

meHeHEhehe, betcha real proud of that one ain't ya

 

[Discipline Daddy]

This thread is stupid. He's not pacing to shatter anything. He's pacing to increase his career high from 34 points to 41 points. He's a 0.5 ppg player. It's not spectacular. It's decent. He is a total package player with good physicality and good defensive positioning makes him a worthy middle 6 center. I'd say this year he is playing like he's worth $4.82M, and last year his worth was more along the line of $2M or $2.5M. He's also the best player on his line right now, which is surprising since he plays right now with Teravainen and Necas. Necas has slumped a bit lately.

 

[Colezuki]

Perhaps it's not HIS fault he was drafted 3rd overall? Perhaps that was an underwhelming draft after Dahlin and Schechnikov? Perhaps MON should maybe have drafted Tkachuk or Hughes at #3? Guess who the #3 scoring forward from that draft is? Jesperi Kotkaniemi.

I mean Im happy for Jk beacuse I liked him and hated bergevin and never wanted him gone. This is a bit of a disingenuous take though.

KK 303 GP 124pt
Farabee 237 gp 120pt
Sharangovic 191 gp 101 pts

More likely he's the 5th highest scoring forward in a couple of seasons

 

[Montreal Shadow]

Montreals draft picks in the 1st half of the 1st round over the last 20 years:

Slafkovsky
Guhle
Caufield
Kotkoneimi
Galchenyuk
McDonagh
Price

There was Sergachev too.

 

[Stickpucker]

Kind of hard to complain about Habs fans not letting it go with a thread like this, meant specifically to poke fun at such fans. Time to let it go on both sides.

They can't hear with their 29 cup rings in their ears anyway.

 

[Fainting Couch]

Still Kakaniemi

 

[GermanSpitfire]

 

[TGWL]

Could he get to 40+ points on the season? Perhaps - with Svechnikov out for the year he'll get a bigger role. More points (in less ice time) than higher-paid Ryan Strome, Mason Marchment, Kevin Labanc, Andrew Mangiapane, Brandon Saad, Ryan Johansen. Credit where credit is due, he's improved in a better system for him than MON. If he can sharpen up his interior passing and puck control a little he'll be just fine on what is quickly becoming and will be for some time a decent contract.

So you're going out of your way to point out a better system and more points, but then use it to downplay Strome because his points aren't what they were in a better NYR system for him? I don't think you needed to add in the knock on the other players who are paid more.

 

[Montreal Shadow]

It's quite easy to complain about the Habs fans actually.

Please. It was just two weeks ago that a poster made a thread highlighting his 5pts game and it wasn't even a Montreal fan. Now we get another one not even from a Montreal fan and you come with the dumb take blaming them.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Still Kakaniemi

Still far more successful than you’ll ever be but keep it up with your silly names if it somehow makes you feel better

 

[T REX]

Seems this might be premature...pretty small sample size.

Still far more successful than you’ll ever be but keep it up with your silly names if it somehow makes you feel better

Not sure you see the irony of you calling a poster out for name calling then immediately go to the "well he is more successful than you" card. Might as well have said "his dad can beat your dad up".

SMDH

 

[Not The One]

This thread is stupid. He's not pacing to shatter anything. He's pacing to increase his career high from 34 points to 41 points.

Yup. He got 34 points in his rookie season playing 4th line minutes on a team that was 14th in the league. Now he's going to end up with 40-43 points playing 3rd/2nd line minutes on a team that is currently 2nd in the league.

Impressive...

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Seems this might be premature...pretty small sample size.


Not sure you see the irony of you calling a poster out for name calling then immediately go to the "well he is more successful than you" card. Might as well have said "his dad can beat your dad up".

SMDH

No irony whatsoever. This is likely a grown man calling a professional athlete (who’s probably younger than him) kaka. That’s just plain stupid.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

The relationship between expectation and emotion is interesting.

If he was a Carolina 3OA, this would be disappointing production and he’d be a whipping boy across the fanbase.

As a Montreal whipping boy to this day, acquired for a late 1st and signed for $4.8 mil, it’s promising production.