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Wow Kuznetsov has arrived
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He's a legit top-10 center in the NHL. He enters the zone like a knife through butter, amazing skating and puck handling.
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I would honestly put him in the top 5.
Only McDavid, Crosby and Malkin are clearly ahead of him.
Yes. He hasn't had any performances in these playoffs like the night where he destroyed the Oilers.
While I love the bird celly the best version of Kuznetsov was when he was doing twister passes every night.
He's more dynamic now but that was the best version of him. Now he tries and can't convert even one of his TM pass that players like Kane copied.
He's been at this level for a while,just having a really good stretch right now.
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What a ridiculous comparison. His speed is nowhere near McDavid's and McDavid's finish is nowhere near Kuznetsov's.
His speed with the puck is not far off and McDavid finished 40 goals this year
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It's literally all that matters lol
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Classic HF thread.
One good playoffs makes you a top player in the league. This reminds me of the Jonathan Drouin and Bryan Bickell threads.
One good playoffs makes you a top player in the league. This reminds me of the Jonathan Drouin and Bryan Bickell threads.
He's great but let's not get ahead of ourselves...
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Behave. Kuznetsov has been pretty incredible since he arrived IMO. It's just took him a bit to get the confidence to get pucks on net more. Once he added more goals he was always going to be an 80-90pt guy. He has adjusted to the physicality of the league too.
He's one of the most naturally talented players around.
He was a top 20 Center 2 years ago. I don't know why this seems new to people.
Also, he's not a top 10 Center now and not even the best center on his team:
McDavid, Crosby, Malkin, Matthews, Seguin, Bergeron, Tavares, Backstrom, Stamkos, and Kopitar are all better at the moment and that was 10.
He's getting there, but I'm having issues putting him the the conversation for Top 10.
Matthews is easily better than Kusnetsov, and Stamkos has more consistency than Kuznetsov has shown by now when he's healthy. There have been some pretty bad Kuznetsov times over the past 3-4 years. Some of my middling fantasy pools will tell you that.
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yeah exactly, 2 seasons ago he had 2p in 12 playoff games and cost the caps the cup. He was one of the worst players I ever seen
It is a lucky fluke run.
I didn't even go to RyJo, Eichel, or tailing off Toews, which I think he's at the same tier as.
I mean, how many of the other guys that I mentioned are running a lock HOF wing next to them?
Okay. But no.
Stamghost didn't score a single even strength point in the Caps series. And there have been some pretty bad times over the past 3-4 years with Stamghost as well (especially this year).
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... give your head a shake.
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You do know Kuznetsov was a second line center on the Caps until this year right? He's played more games with TJ Oshie, Burakovsky, Johansson, Williams than he has Ovechkin.
He has a good chance to beat Crosby and get the 2nd best playoffs scoring record for the last 22 years...
