Quoting: EccE
To clarify, I never said anything about the trade itself. I only ever said that I would be extremely hesitant to trade Kaprizov to the Avs.
What comes to your claims about Kaprizov, they are simply wrong. Kaprizov is a superstar, no matter how many "get reals" and ALL-CAPS words you throw into a sentence. Landeskog is great, but he put up those numbers with MacK and Rantanen. Kaprizov had Rask. It's okay to look at certain things through colored glasses when you are a fan, but come on now.
He had a great regular season, disappeared in the playoffs. For comparison Landeskog 62 CF at 5v5, Kaprisov 49. I’m not seeing anything through rose colored lenses, because I’m willing to discount anybody’s performance this past season particularly anybody in the west that got to feast on crap teams disproportionately like ANA, PHX, LAK, and SJS for half of their games. He had a great season and has potential but he was at best at best the 4th best winger in the west behind Kane, Rantanen and Stone, and you could make the argument Landeskog and Pacioretty were as good. Throw in guys like Kucherov, Marner, Panarin, Huberdeau, Pasternak, Marchand, and Ovechkin and he isn’t top 10 in the league. But honestly I apologize for overreacting, that wasn’t right. You are fully entitled to your opinion and I should have commented differently.