Aarif Dean

Brock Nelson has to take every faceoff in front of Blackwood and Wedgwood.

And him and Val Dutroux are going to have to go out there and finish off six on five games.

And they have to have all these defensive end draws and face the tougher competition and do basically all the things you need to do so that Nathan McKinnon can go out there and be a heart trophy guy and put up 150 million points.

And I was like, okay, this is like you, like, like you said, like he's 34 years old.

He's never had anything like this.

So I started to kind of throw it out there a little bit in those monthly Wyshynski things.

Uh, not that I had an impact on, on other voters.

Uh, but I think a lot of people started to realize that too, like, okay, Brock Nelson is basically, I don't know, 2007 Rob Niedermeyer, but he's also got 65 points and 33 goals.

Like it, it is quite impressive what he's done.

to the point where when the Avalanche traded for Nazem Kadri, and they still brought him in, it was like, oh, great, now the Avalanche can reunite Landeskog, Kadri, and Nachushkin.

I'm like, no, no, no, no.

Kadri's the third-line center on this team.

The guy from Long Island is having an insane season.

So his offense has since kind of dried up a little bit.

I think he scored his 30th goal literally the game after the Olympics, right in the high of that.

game gold medal that he took from us.

But then he's kind of slowed down.

He's got two goals in the playoffs.

One of them was yesterday.

They're both empty netters, but he's still doing that defensive zone thing.