Nick Suzuki Is Either An Assassin, A Wizard, Or Some Sort Of Combination Of The Two
Minas Panagiotakis. Getty Images.The NHL is in a great place right now. You look all around the league and there are filthy young players everywhere, with even nastier players still coming up through the ranks. And even with those young whipper snappers taking over the league, the old guard is still keeping pace and taking their sweet ass time to pass the torch. Crosby and Ovechkin are both top 10 in goals. Stamkos is right there, too. The point I'm getting at here is that the NHL is filled with so many stars that some of them are still flying under the radar.
And with Jason Robertson making it literally impossible to not notice him this year, Nick Suzuki is taking over as the most under the radar filth ball in the league.
Just look at that reaction from Jacob Markstrom. This is the face of a man who knew exactly what was coming, but still couldn't do anything to prevent it from happening.
He saw the future. Witnessed his own death. And was able to do absolutely nothing about it. Hell, everyone in the world knew what move Suzuki was going with as soon as he took that shootout attempt down the right side. He's been doing it all year.
He's 3/3 on the Datsyuk Flip this year. He's 4/4 on the move if you also take this one from a couple preseasons ago.
He's also one of only two players in the league to be 4/4 so far this year in the shootout along with Kaprizov. The other move he likes to go with in the shootout? It's just as telegraphed as the Datsyuk Flip. If he starts going down the left side, he's cutting back to the middle and then finishing it off with the backhand. He did it to Carter Hart a month ago.
He did it against Tampa Bay last season.
He did it in practice a couple years ago coming out of the pandemic.
He did it back in 2017 playing for Owen Sound in the OHL.
Right side is a Datsyuk Flip. Left side is cut back to the middle, forehand backhand forehand backhand back of the net.
You know what's coming. You don't have to predict the future when the past just continues to repeat itself. But there's not a goalie on the planet who can still figure out a way to stop this guy when it's just 1v1. Which leads me to believe that Nick Suzuki is either a wizard, an assassin, or some other supernatural being that we can't yet comprehend. Either way, Montreal is in great silky hands for the foreseeable future.