TomasHertlsRooster
Don’t say eye test when you mean points
27 point in 29 games with an unreal 60.1% Corsi and 11.2% Corsi Rel but he's not in the top 3 of TOI so unfortunately he's still not a 1st liner.
Where's Rooster with his fancy charts to show everyone how terrible TK is?
He's actually playing very well this season, good for him. His raw on-ice metrics will probably benefit a bit from Couturier, but he's doing well in his own right.
However, that doesn't change that he clearly was not a first liner last year, when he played 2nd/3rd line tweener minutes and his underlying metrics were putrid:
We'll see whether or not he can keep this strong play up over the course of a full season.