26Mats
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To give players a rest don't we need the injured to return. Right now there's no one to play.
Yes, when the injured return
To give players a rest don't we need the injured to return. Right now there's no one to play.
Round and round and round with blaming everyone and everything other than KK himself. Blame his wingers, blame the coaches, blame the D, blame ice time, blame him being on the wrong side... blame blame blame. Today's excuse : Anderson! Unbelievable.Do you see a pattern? KK's line mates have been criticized all season in this thread.
Take a look at the comments back in January. Armia and Toffoli were a terrible duo for KK. How could that line possibly work? Now they're part of the best offensive line we've seen in years.
When Anderson was paired with KK after the TDL, there were no complaints. Andy was the "Powerhorse". Now? Andy's not playing well, they should play KK with the "hot hand".
Snippet from Arpon Basu’s article on The Athletic this morning, good read if you’re interested, and can access - to help maintain perspective..The same thing applies to Jesperi Kotkaniemi, who did not have a great night and watched the final nine minutes of regulation and all of overtime from the bench. That doesn’t define him either. Kotkaniemi will not be benched every game.
Romanov will not be turning pucks over left and right every game. Caufield will not be scoring overtime goals every game. That’s the nature of being a young player in the NHL, you are constantly searching to stabilize your game, to be reliable or predictable or any of the other adjectives coaches use to describe players they trust.
This is what makes what Nick Suzuki is doing right now different because his game is not solely defined by moments. Over the past couple of weeks, Suzuki has strung together moments at both ends of the ice, and when moments are strung together, they cease to be moments.
They become consistency, the holy grail of hockey traits players are always seeking.
Suzuki appears to have found it.
I'm actually worried for KK that when the injured return, he may just be eating popcorn early on in the playoffs. I never would have thought that even two weeks ago. He needs to step up during the next few games and guarantee his spot in the lineup.Yes, when the injured return
I'm actually worried for KK that when the injured return, he may just be eating popcorn early on in the playoffs. I never would have thought that even two weeks ago. He needs to step up during the next few games and guarantee his spot in the lineup.
Everyone is praising Evans after every game. If the choice is between Evans and KK, who will Ducharme choose? Evans, who's been praised game after game? Or KK, who has certainly improved but is struggling lately, is getting ice time, better linemates and PP time but is not producing at all??
Or if it's a choice between Caufield and KK?
I wish it was a choice between KK and Staal but it won't be.
Do you see a pattern? KK's line mates have been criticized all season in this thread.
Take a look at the comments back in January. Armia and Toffoli were a terrible duo for KK. How could that line possibly work? Now they're part of the best offensive line we've seen in years.
When Anderson was paired with KK after the TDL, there were no complaints. Andy was the "Powerhorse". Now? Andy's not playing well, they should play KK with the "hot hand".
Yeah, read this thread and youll find your statement very stupid.Nobody hate JK. I don't understand why some guy equate saying the guy wont be a 1st line player to hating the guy. I don't think he'll develop into a solid 1st line center but it doesn't mean i hate him. I don't hate him at all he's a good 3rd line center who might develop into a solid 2nd line center. This is how i see it. I might be wrong obviously.
Suzuki is playing with Toffoli and Armia. KK has played a lot with Toffoli and Armia. Armia is a favourite whipping boy of the experts here and they repeated incessantly how KK couldn't produce with him on the wing. But he's good enough for Suzuki?KK could still get better linemates imo. He had Drouin and Anderson, then grinders, then out of position on the wing. Look at what Suzuki's doing now that he's away from Drouin.
On the pp, he needs to be on his one time side and the coaches need to tell him to use his one timer more, with Cole back in his offense. If he doesn't produce in those conditions then he can sit at this time in his career - or play wing.
Yes, theyre asking him to be a winger when he's been a center for 3 years straight, you see he always plays like a C and not like a winger, thats on the coach to figure it out.On the Leafs' 2nd goal KK was almost in Allen's crease, doing what? Nobody knows. That placed him too far to get to the point when the puck reached the d-man. Also, he showed all the hustle of a sloth trying to get to the point.
In the first period, he was supposed to cover Kerfoot, couldn't keep up with him and Kerfoot got in alone on Allen. Luckily, Jake pulled off a nice save.
You want more examples of KK's inept play? If I think about it I may have to revise my assessment and say he played as badly as Romanov.
There were freaking good reasons why DD benched him.