COLBY CAVE - Center - 24 - $.675MM Cap Hit - RFA in 2020-2021
LAST UPDATED 6/23/19
Cave, an undrafted player who was a star for the WHL Swift Current Broncos, has struggled to assert himself as a full-time NHL player. He's a naturally physical player, using his big body to his advantage when fighting for loose pucks and for space in the corners. He lacks the high-end foot speed and puck skills to ever make him a viable scoring option, but he's willing to throw the body around and play in a limited ice time, bottom-6 role. Isolated impact metrics portray cave as a small positive on both ends of the ice, with a strong positive defensive impact, but the sample size for those metrics is only 56 games, so the small sample size may be a factor with those numbers. Given all of those factors, Cave looks like a decently limited player, but with the upside to be a solid 4th line energy player if he can show a little bit more scoring touch at the professional level, but given his AHL track record, it's likely he sticks in an organization as more of a depth AHL power forward/NHL grinder 14th or 15th forward.
Cave, an undrafted player who was a star for the WHL Swift Current Broncos, has struggled to assert himself as a full-time NHL player. He's a naturally physical player, using his big body to his advantage when fighting for loose pucks and for space in the corners. He lacks the high-end foot speed and puck skills to ever make him a viable scoring option, but he's willing to throw the body around and play in a limited ice time, bottom-6 role. Isolated impact metrics portray cave as a small positive on both ends of the ice, with a strong positive defensive impact, but the sample size for those metrics is only 56 games, so the small sample size may be a factor with those numbers. Given all of those factors, Cave looks like a decently limited player, but with the upside to be a solid 4th line energy player if he can show a little bit more scoring touch at the professional level, but given his AHL track record, it's likely he sticks in an organization as more of a depth AHL power forward/NHL grinder 14th or 15th forward.
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