Quoting: brady_t12
With good reason. He’s been around a point per game pace since the cup run. This past season, he got sick with COVID twice, which lead to his awful start this season. Again, I cite zibanejad’s issues with COVID and dip in production at the start of the year. He’s still asking for a $10M extension.
Kuzy finished the season with 16 points in his last 20 games. Laviolette broke through with him. He didn’t get a full training camp under Lavi, so it just took time. He looked electric out there once Lavi finally got him shooting. He is poised for an insane season next year and then everyone on this site will shut up about him.
I watched every game too, including Kuzy pretty closely. The only thing I can say about him is he didn't look as awful this past year as he did the two years prior. Saying that he's a "point per game" player since the cup run is just wildly inaccurate.
18-19 he was .95
19-20 he was .83
20-21 he was .71
That's hardly a PPG. It's still very very good, and I'd take Kuzy's .71ppg season with his improved 200 foot game over those other higher point seasons with atrocious defense.
Bottom line is, he's no where near "fixed" or "back to form" from his 2018 cup run. He was otherworldly good in that 2 month stretch of hockey, and probably will never play that good again in his life.
On the other hand, I don't want the Caps trading him for a bag of pucks called Stephenson. It's perfectly fine if the Caps trade him for a fair return, but given his off the ice issues and behavior issues, I don't think they'll get that. Hence why GMBM is walking back his Kuzy trade talks. The offers were probably underwhelming and didn't at least make the Caps equally as good.
So I think he's here to stay.
The Caps still desperately need to move money off the books though someway somehow.
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