[Big Head Hockey] Players in the last decade with a higher goals-per-game through their first 5 seasons than Alex DeBrincat: Connor McDavid — Auston Matthews — Kirill Kaprizov* — Jason Robertson* *Haven’t played a full 5 seasons Did Yzerman just .. steal one of the best snipers in the league?
by dilypucks
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If Cat shows up here and fits seamlessly onto the top line and PP1 and scores 40+ goals this will end up being one of the greatest finesses in modern hockey history. What’s so amazing about this trade and contract tho is Yzerman managed to put Cat in a spot where if he doesn’t hit 40 goals it won’t be a disaster, we didn’t give up “you must score 40 goals every year” value in the trade and we aren’t paying him “you must score 40 goals every year” salary. I would say giving up a conditional first and paying him 7.7 I’d be happy with 30+ goals, it would have to be in the 20s for me to be worried.
I believe Cat is gonna put up 40 this year though, Seider ended the Detroit Calder drought, now Cat is gonna end the Detroit 40 goal scorer drought. I’m ready for it.
Yes.
This goes along with my narrative so I will say yes
The funniest thing is Yzerman did it twice, Vrana and now Debrincat. For all the shit Yzerman gets for drafting “safe, boring 200f players” he has also taken in two of the snipiest snipers the league has ever seen.
These guys had Detroit’s lines made up yesterday, and had Debrincat AND Kubalik on the first line..
Sens fans are convincing themselves that Kubalik is better though
Larkin is about to excel this year because of this.
Debrincat is this eras Shanahan