Reminds me a bit of Rick Nash in that regard.
Gonna be the kind of player that uses a lot of dekes in close.
This isn't quite accurate. Many of his shots, yes, fall into the Mike York category of shot type. That he has to fix. But there have been quite a few times this past season where out of nowhere he takes a one timer or a snapshot and suddenly there's tremendous whip on it. He hit a few posts and missed the net a few times with those shots this year.
The thing I wonder about with Kakko, other than that first step, which he needs to keep working on, is his game processing. Sometimes it's elite. Other times, it's a bit delayed or off. It could just be that he's figuring things out still, because he's not able to just use his size and stickhandling the same way as before, or it could become one of those frustrating things where he's inconsistent with his decision making. He sorta reminds me of a young Buchnevich or JT Miller in that way. That's why I think Kakko is more like a Mark Stone at his peak. But based on his improved D alone, he's far beyond a lot of the comparables. The knock on all of these other kids was their inconsistency in every zone. Kakko managed to solve his inconsistency in two zones already.
