Who is the Next William Karlsson?

[JPeeper]

Sam Bennett

I think if Peters puts Bennett with Monahan and Gaudreau next year he'd have a real good chance to be a 60+ point man. Not really the same as Karlsson though as even at Bennett's worst he still demolishes Karlsson's pre-Vegas numbers.

 

[boyko10]

Who do you think the next player is to come out of nowhere and put up insane offensive numbers?

My guess is Joel Armia. I've been impressed every time I've seen him. Like Karlsson, he is great defensively, posesses a good shot with an incredible release, and has a ton of skill. He is being pushed down the lineup by guys like Laine, Connor, Ehlers, and Roslovic, but I think he could break out in another team's top 6.

I am confident that Joel can be more consistent, and work on that last bit of finish that he lacks.

Not that confident about his health, though.. He has Enstroms disease. Enstrom-Perreault syndrome. Terminal.

 

[Sergei DRW]

Who do you think the next player is to come out of nowhere and put up insane offensive numbers?

My guess is Joel Armia. I've been impressed every time I've seen him. Like Karlsson, he is great defensively, posesses a good shot with an incredible release, and has a ton of skill. He is being pushed down the lineup by guys like Laine, Connor, Ehlers, and Roslovic, but I think he could break out in another team's top 6.

William Karlsson didn't come from nowhere.
If you followed him, you knew he is a capable scorer.
It's the Cbus poor coaching that buried him on the 4th line from where you don't score much no matter how hard you try, that should be discussed in such threads.

 

[24 others]

Jakub Vrana for the caps. Always looks like he is about to score, never does (so far!).

 

[JLo217]

Sven Andrighetto

 

[Viqsi]

The unique thing about Karlsson is the opportunity for a historic 3c/4c to play big first line minutes. This doesn't really happen with other clubs, especially centres, where a relative no-namer can eat up close to twenty minutes per game of first line time. I haven't looked at his PP TOI but I assume it's high.

He went up over 5 minutes per game of average time on ice from last year to this year and went from 3c/4c to 1c. That just doesn't really happen in this league, outside of exceptional circumstances like the expansion draft.

...or the first ten or twelve years of the Columbus Blue Jackets' existence.

Not that that stops our Whine Brigade from constantly bringing him up as the ultimate argument for why anything and everything having to do with our team still sucks or something.

 

[Club]

Mantha or Perlini

 

[Dynamite Time]

Billy Karlsson

 

[DrJustice]

Ryan Donato

 

[DannyGallivan]

Who do you think the next player is to come out of nowhere and put up insane offensive numbers?

My guess is Joel Armia. I've been impressed every time I've seen him. Like Karlsson, he is great defensively, posesses a good shot with an incredible release, and has a ton of skill. He is being pushed down the lineup by guys like Laine, Connor, Ehlers, and Roslovic, but I think he could break out in another team's top 6.

He'd have to get consistent first line ice time, of course. However, that's a good choice.

To stay with the Jets, I'd say Brandon Tanev (don't laugh, let me explain) on a much smaller level. I think we can see a consistent 15 goal seasons from him, and maybe a Cinderella 20 goal season.

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

Drouin hopefully. He has the talent, just needs to shrug off a terrible year.

 

[Aceboogie]

Who knows, every year a random players rides a sky high shooting % and then falls back to earth the next year. See Eberle, Kadri and the other numerous examples.

In 5 years this thread will be looked at alot differently when Karlsson gets a massive pay raise and fails to score half of the number of goals he scored this year

 

[HanSolo]

William Karlsson didn't come from nowhere.
If you followed him, you knew he is a capable scorer.
It's the Cbus poor coaching that buried him on the 4th line from where you don't score much no matter how hard you try, that should be discussed in such threads.

And he didn't even get his start on the Vegas first line. He started on the third line after a really poor preseason. Gallant saw something in him and he tried him with Smith and Marchessault. They had instant chemistry and the rest was history at least for this year.

But to add Karlsson really did improve his game offensively in terms of moving his feet to get to the high quality scoring chances his line was generating. Without hard work on Wild Bill's end he likely wouldn't have had the same numbers. I mean there's a reason he's still been productive in the playoffs and puck luck isn't it. Granted he's been really timid in the Finals and I hope that changes.

 

[Charlie Conway]

I was sure Lindberg would break out for Vegas. Rangers fans were excited about him. We were okay with letting him go in the draft, but some of us thought he might break out and debated it a lot on the boards.

Not much happened, though.

 

[SenzZen]

Jason Dickinson?

 

[sebsisles]

Anthony Beauvillier

 

[RustyCat]

Not a Preds fan but after watching my team (Wpg) play them, I agreement with whomever said Kevin Fiala. He is on the verge of something big I think.

 

[Lebowski]

I pray Kevin Fiala can turn into a 40 goal scorer.

He reminds me a lot of Filip Forsberg. I think he'll be a good one, no reason not to be with his combination of speed, hands and shot.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

De la Rose

 

[IceNeophyte]

William Karlsson. With Seattle.

He'll come back down to earth and be exposed in the next E-Draft.

Rinse, repeat.

Vegas will not get a share of Seattle's buy-in and won't participate in the edraft.

 

[ViktorBaeArvidsson]

He reminds me a lot of Filip Forsberg. I think he'll be a good one, no reason not to be with his combination of speed, hands and shot.

That’s what I’m hoping for. He had his first pretty good year this season, so hoping he can just keep on improving.

 

[Butch 19]

Does he have any children?

This may already be solved.

 

[McShogun99]

Well I just said Nail Yakupov might pull it off a few minutes ago so might as well do it again here. Assuming he doesn't bolt to the KHL of course.

I think for Yakupov to have any success he needs to be in a situation similar to Gagner when he was with Columbus. Put him on the 4th line of a deep team and give him 1st unit PP time with a right shot playmaker. Even in the perfect situation I doubt he would hit 30 goals.

 

[McShogun99]

Austin Czarnik

I could see this but nowhere close to as good a season as Karlsson had.

 

[Apocalypse Dude]

Oliver Bjorkstrand.