Quoting: OldNYIfan
Well, let's see: he has as many points in 60 games as Juraj Slafkovsky has in 71, he plays center and is better defensively than Caufield or Slafkovsky despite being younger, and he has a face-off-winning percentage of 52.2, so he'd be a much better #2C than Kirby Dach. Which is why we won't be making this trade, because if we miss on both Celebrini and Levshunov, we'd much rather have our own first and McTavish than Caufield and your first.
Wow, your 21 year old center has the same amount of points as our 19 year old winger, so impressive!
Not saying they're everything, but as someone who doesn't watch McTavish I can't say whether he's better defensively or not, but as per https://www.data-driven-hockey.com/ 's advanced stats which I subscribed for, Caufield has a -0.02 GOA/GP (goals over average per game) defensively, Slaf is -0.08, and McTavish is -0.11. Gonna say it again, those numbers aren't everything, but it's a fair outline of a players abilities. And another stat that has some say in a player's defensive ability (but more a team stat) +/-, Caufield is -6, Slaf is -18, McTavish is -24...
Not gonna argue about the faceoffs, you're most likely correct there