Should be the best offensive team we have had in years. I suspect Chytil will be benched a lot this year. He's lazy. Player G A P Panarin 27 53 80 Zibanejad 41 38 79 Kreider 35 32 67 Kakko 28 24 52 Buchnevich 21 30 51 DeAngelo 10 41 51 Kravtsov 19 30 49 Fox 8 35 42 Strome 17 23 40 Howden 12 23 35 Andersson 15 17 32 Skjei 7 21 28 Trouba 10 17 27 Lemieux 14 12 26 Chytil 17 8 25
Might be a little high for DA and low on Trouba in terms of points as well as Zib, who i think will hit 30-40/70. 40g seems alot for him. Could certainly see 20g for Krav.
Zibanejad will be the shooter on the PP and with a more mature DeAngelo and Panarin setting him up, his goals should be way up.
I would peg Trouba at around 10-35-45 and Zib at 33-47-80. Kreider and Panarin 30g each. Hopefully Andersson, Howden and Chytil have good soph seasons.
Put the Chytil horsewhip down dump, if you want to say he ran out of gas I'd agree but for a 19 year old prospect to log 75 games is hardly lazy. he's hands down the best skater on the team, should have had 15 more points if the stone hands his line could finish. I think the most glaring stat among the Rangers players last year was +/- and Chytil's -22 is eye popping but when you see Mika at -12 and the whole team in the minus column except for Tony D (+6), CK (+4), Claesson, McQuade, Brickley (+3), Hayes, Hajek, Belesky (+1). Quinn has to fix defense on this team especially with Hank's continued fossilization.
Take the blinders off Panzer. He was benched repeatedly by Quinn for a reason. He doesn't play hard consistently. Until I see that, I'm not going to kiss his ass like you.
Andersson easy. Game slowed down for him the last 15 games. Unlike Chytil, he has loads of intangibles. If they put him with some decent talent, he should pop for 30-35 points this season and be a mainstay on the PK unit.