The Hockey News – September 17, 2019

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Maybe it’s not worth it to go all out during the

season and then get zonked in the playoffs.

2018-19 MISSED GAMES

NIKITA KUCHEROV INJ./ILL. 0 SCRATCH 0

GP G A

80 40 75

POINTS

115

POS: RW AGE: 26

HT: 5-11 WT: 178

BORN: 06/17/93

TAMPA BAY

2019-20 CAP HIT: $9,500,000

YEAR TEAM LEA GP G A P MIN. PIM PPG +/- ES/PP GP G A P PROJECTION

’16-17 Tampa Bay NHL 74 40 45 85 19:26 38 1.15 13 53/32 – – – –

’17-18 Tampa Bay NHL 80 39 61 100 19:49 42 1.25 15 64/36 17 7 10 17

’18-19 Tampa Bay NHL 82 41 87 128 19:58 62 1.56 24 80/48 3 0 2 2

CAREER 6YRS 447 188 274 462 223 1.03

Can easily get back up to the 80-point range. The

power play has the firepower to score more.

2018-19 MISSED GAMES

EVGENY KUZNETSOV INJ./ILL. 6 SCRATCH 0

GP G A

80 25 55

POINTS

80

POS: C AGE: 27

HT: 6-2 WT: 204

BORN: 05/19/92

WASHINGTON

2019-20 CAP HIT: $7,800,000

YEAR TEAM LEA GP G A P MIN. PIM PPG +/- ES/PP GP G A P PROJECTION

’16-17 Washington NHL 82 19 40 59 16:57 46 .72 18 45/14 13 5 5 10

’17-18 Washington NHL 79 27 56 83 18:49 48 1.05 3 52/30 24 12 20 32

’18-19 Washington NHL 76 21 51 72 18:47 50 .95 7 49/23 7 1 5 6

CAREER 6YRS 416 101 236 337 206 .81

A second-tier scorer whose production is up there

with the top players on some other teams.

2018-19 MISSED GAMES

KEVIN LABANC INJ./ILL. 0 SCRATCH 0

GP G A

80 15 40

POINTS

55

POS: RW AGE: 23

HT: 5-11 WT: 185

BORN: 12/12/95

SAN JOSE

2019-20 CAP HIT: $1,000,000

YEAR TEAM LEA GP G A P MIN. PIM PPG +/- ES/PP GP G A P PROJECTION

’16-17 San Jose NHL 55 8 12 20 13:40 22 .36 9 18/2 – – – –

San Jose AHL 19 6 13 19 – 24 1.00 2 12/6 15 3 4 7

’17-18 San Jose NHL 77 11 29 40 14:21 32 .52 -6 23/17 10 1 4 5

San Jose AHL 2 1 3 4 – 2 2.00 3 3/1 – – – –

’18-19 San Jose NHL 82 17 39 56 14:01 36 .68 -1 36/20 20 4 5 9

CAREER 3YRS 214 36 80 116 90 .54

He ran into a wall, a really big one. But he’s too good

not to recover from last year’s disaster.

2018-19 MISSED GAMES

PATRIK LAINE INJ./ILL. 0 SCRATCH 0

GP G A

82 45 25

POINTS

70

POS: RW AGE: 21

HT: 6-5 WT: 206

BORN: 04/19/98

WINNIPEG

2019-20 CAP HIT: RFA

YEAR TEAM LEA GP G A P MIN. PIM PPG +/- ES/PP GP G A P PROJECTION

’16-17 Winnipeg NHL 73 36 28 64 17:54 26 .88 7 50/14 – – – –

’17-18 Winnipeg NHL 82 44 26 70 16:29 24 .85 8 39/31 17 5 7 12

’18-19 Winnipeg NHL 82 30 20 50 17:14 42 .61 -24 27/23 6 3 1 4

CAREER 3YRS 237 110 74 184 92 .78

Look for a dip from the Avalanche’s big three. All of

them had big second-half drops.

2018-19 MISSED GAMES

GABRIEL LANDESKOG INJ./ILL. 9 SCRATCH 0

GP G A

74 30 36

POINTS

66

POS: LW AGE: 26

HT: 6-1 WT: 215

BORN: 11/23/92

COLORADO

2019-20 CAP HIT: $5,571,429

YEAR TEAM LEA GP G A P MIN. PIM PPG +/- ES/PP GP G A P PROJECTION

’16-17 Colorado NHL 72 18 15 33 18:46 62 .46 -25 26/6 – – – –

’17-18 Colorado NHL 78 25 37 62 20:09 37 .79 16 44/17 6 4 3 7

’18-19 Colorado NHL 73 34 41 75 21:09 51 1.03 17 48/27 12 3 5 8

CAREER 8YRS 579 177 239 416 442 .72

KUCHEROV-LANDESKOG