At least it’s not the other color

Ideally you would want Ilya to get to that 1.1 P/G level, which doesn't really leave much doubt in his overall ceiling, especially considering his tools, which would make his game very translatable.

At the same time, if Ilya doesn't keep that level of production there is clear drop off in the quality of the players between RNH and Bergeron (who impacted the game in completely different ways and to expect that from Ilya would be crazy)

To boot, there's a chance that he will climb even higher since he's seemingly figured it out recently and is going strong. It is a situation absolutely worth monitoring because having this kind of special player in the system could really push the Caps ceiling as soon as this spring.

So far I've identified the "RNH threshold" over which we have a really high density of star players and Ilya is over it, this means my interest is veery much piqued.

To support his ascension into stardom, I'm sharing a graph from "over there".

Yet they sucked almost all the way through. It was a masterpiece by Thompson

is there something to emote about right now?

I'm of the same camp, but he's not been doing awesome and I think the ship has sailed on him being more than a third liner at this point. Lapierre's looking really confident, he also brings more of the skills the Caps need, which are plamaking and transition play.

Miro hasn't been looking great to be honest, he is also very young still, some overcooking won't be bad for him.

Nothing should stop us from trying Lap on the wing to be honest. Milano being a player makes thing quite interesting and weird, really.

I concur, stayin til 1:30 am to puck drop is a nightmare