Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy

So you could see the difference between like the first one and where our devils turn up.

So first one is the rocket Richard.

Anybody want to guess who's

time out? Yes.

People around the shows are still high on him.

They talk about Mitch Cobb as a potential, you know, Rocket Richard winner, the way that he came out into the NHL.

I believe he had 25 goals in his rookie season.

So hopefully he can break out this season.

I think the Marchenko trade certainly will work wonders for him too.

I think that's going to allow him to score a little bit more and get back to being a top-tier talent.

I think we see 50-plus goals competing for the Rocket Richard, and I think that we'll see the market correct back into the echelon of being a top-five hobby player because that's what he was just two short years ago when he scored 69 goals, and we saw his market explode.

I don't think he's going to score 69.

All right.

What Florida Panther won the Maurice Richard Trophy in 2000? That's a long time ago.

That was, like, the first few years.

They came in the league, I would say, in '95.

Uh, I think he's great.

Uh, the Rocket Richard.

This one's tough.

It is.

You remember a few years ago where, like, McDavid got ticked off that he was about everyone shining up Auston Matthews, and he was like-

Mm-hmm

... "All right, I'm gonna just take your Rocket Richard.

I'll just score 60 goals because-

Hus, I liked your reasoning for Schaefer as well.

maybe the voters are starting you know they gave warensky his and and it's been macar and hughes a number of times maybe they're looking to give it to one of these younger guys so i like lane hudson plus 800 for the norris and then another one for me leon dry sidle plus 550 to win the rocket richard he won it in 2024 25 um and last year it was awesome for the oilers as well but was hurt.

He only played 65 games, but he had 35 goals in those games.

And the year that he won the rocket in 2024, 25, he had 52 goals in 71 games.

He's been close to 70.

He's looking healthy.

But who I liked for the Rocket Richard, Cutter Gauthier was plus 3500.

I'm looking at Dom's projections in the Athletic.

I just wanted to get, uh, get that written down in case you had anything that you wanted to share on that.

Uh, did you take a look at the rocket Richard market at all? Or is that not again, uh, monitor that as we move on through the season?

So not really.

Um, I'm just looking at it right now.

Fair enough.

Let's go for the Rocket.

Who's scoring the most goals? Oh, that's a tough one.

Well, based on what I said yesterday, it's not going to be Cole Caulfield.

That'd be a bold prediction.

But then says Caulfield wins the Rocket Richard Trophy, and Dobesh gets the Vezna.

So we have two predictions.

Award winners, Campbell.

Yeah, it's interesting because I think it's a lot different with hockey than it is with the NFL in terms of player projections.

I think, you know, it's difficult when you try to map out the projection for the course of an 84-game season, obviously, this year and expectations for what's next there in Montreal in particular when you have a lot of moving parts.

For what Cole Caulfield did last year, I know I was in the mix as one of the guys that thought he had the potential to take a big next step last year, and obviously we saw the results as a Rocket Richard Trophy contender.

Potential to score 50 goals this year, certainly think that he'll be in the mix for the Rocket, but The makeup of this team, what does Slivkovsky going to the second line do? Is Demidov ready to take a big step forward as a second line player? In Carolina last year, we really saw the transition from that Aho Jarvis-Svechnikov transition.