Cole Caufield's JOURNEY to the NHL, playing in the Stanley Cup & getting his GROOVE back | The Point
2024 ж. 10 Мам.
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On The Point, Montreal Canadiens' forward Cole Caufield sat down with Emily Kaplan to discuss his journey to the NHL, his goals with the Canadiens and getting his groove back with a focus on having fun.
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I friggin’ love this kid… so down to earth and humble.
that 2021 season was a magical run
yeah people were going nuts !!
Excellent interview, very honest answers. He is a great player and we have not seen his best yet.
YOU SMILE is SOOO ICONIC 😂❤❤❤❤❤❤ AND SOOOOO SWEET it makes my heart warm when you smile cole.
You just cant help but root for him. Love the guy.
The kid is awesome. I’d love to see him as a Leaf. Habs are very lucky to have such a talented young player. He’s so smooth on the ice ❤
yall got brock!
@@_SE77 this is the Leafs we’re talking about. Good luck with that 😏
AWHHH I LOVE HIM 😭😭😭
Cheating on Hughes ehh
How can you not love this kid!!!! He's got such an infectious smile 😁😁. In fact I had a smile watching this! I'm a big Leafs fan, but I will always cheer for Caufield 👍👍👏
Hope the fans stop hate when a players have a "scoring problems". I mean Josh Anderson i have no remorse to Say Thay he dont even look like he wants to play. Cole doesnt score all the Time, but he put His Heart on the Line every Nights !
@@_SE77 Let's See your french then 😌
Wow, you don’t like people having a go at Cole but it’s ok to knock Josh Anderson a player any team be happy to have. If he’s uninspired perhaps it’s the team he’s on
@@joanneogley4874 oh yeah for sure, the problem its the team but Suzuki seems to have no worries to Found motivation with 30 goals. LOL
@@joanneogley4874 like i Said, Cole give everything he got. Anderson dosen't. Thats the big difference ! Like the HABS in general we don't like to See them loose but if at least there's a constent effort idgaf. Ok right, Tell me wich team would be happy on a one on one Trade for him with the Contract he have. Even at 4M i dont keep IT. He Play like a waivers players and its all is fault, cause we all know he got talent. HABS propose him players help and psychologist and he say he don't need IT 😂 armia did and look the END of His Season.
LOVE YOU COLE CAUFIELD 😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
I wonder how many goals he's capable of scoring when the Habs have some true secondary scoring threats and not all of the other teams focus is on Cole, Nick and Slaf
50
It looked like we had a very good top 6 going into the season but Dach got injured game 2 and Anderson turned to stone. If Dach comes back next year I feel like we can have a solid second line with him, Newhook and Roy.
Put Nick with Slaf… Caufield with Dach… and Roy with Newhook next year… You’re welcome.
One of the nicest NHL players I’ve ever had the chance to meet
Man I love him
How talented 🎉
I love him he is so funny and showing little guys anyone can do it
Love the interview! Love Cole!
I don't think you will ever read the cole but you are sooo fun to watch skate and you're just the star on the team you make every one Laugh including me. In this video I saw how you look sad and that made me almost cry. I'm just a BIG BIG fan. You also fun to watch when you're with Nick Suzuki 😛. I also think that there is nothing wrong with being short. I also like your nickname (goal Caufield) YOU ROCK!!!!! ❤ (I'm 11 years old)❤
I'm sorry for what happened with the ref you looked so sad and it doesn't help that you were getting laughed at. Oh and that you fell right in front of the leafs bench. 😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I know how you feel because once I bumped in to my teacher and everyone laughed at me. ❤😢😢. LOVE YOU❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷
He was so cute when he were young
make this a serie!
Don't know if you will read this Cole. but you know, I have told you many times. there was NEVER A DOUBT that you would be there. Enjoy every moment. Dean Miller
where you his coach ?
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GOALFIELD 🙌🙌💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥☄️
Met him in a bar/club in Mtl. Real Gentlemen. Not bigheaded at all.not like P.K Subban who was super nice but loud 🤣for younger NHL player, Hats off ! In Mtl the pressure is at the highest level.... And that it's because of our heritage and politic (Silent Revolution) Hockey was our sport. Long story but it was not just a sport then.
You probably won't see any comments but al Habs fan love you ups or downs we got you
Fucking beauty!
Goal* Caufield
He's a little bit streaky. At one point during the 2024 Season he scored 5 goals in 5 games, but unfortunately he has not scored a goal in the last 12 games. Cole said he can score a minimum of 50 goals in a season. That would be quite an achievement. Highly unlikely. But not impossible.
he said that was the expectation from the fans
I get it he is small, but playing inside the stanley cup is wild
For a guy of his size, what I appreciate about Cole is that he's not a liability in terms of easily getting injured or seriously hurt compared to some players who might be bigger but are more vulnerable. But if you ask him to work harder in certain aspects or situations, then you're limiting his abilities by making him more tired on the ice. We all know one of Cole's main strengths is his ability to shoot pucks into a 2.5" x 1.5" opening, which is difficult to do if you're exhausted on the ice. I have nothing against Marty Saint-Louis; I think he's doing a great job, but he needs to consider this and let him play his game the way he learned to play a little more, and I'm a guy from Montreal saying this.
Fortunately he won't end up as an one-dimensional elite goal scorer player. Thank you for this year which will have made him a two-way player, a playmaker AND resourceful elite goal scorer (he second goal scorer on our team... so you know, relativity...)
@@TpsTerminator Why was he drafted? How often have you seen a player so precise in his shots? Not even Marty could do that. I say, let the player be who he is.
@@CamHC The game has changed... Now if a forward doesn't have defensive skills, he's not in the NHL, it's as simple as that. As the defenders have become too offensive and mobile, the attacking players must now change position and play defensively at all times. Same for goalkeepers, their level is unreal. If an attacking player is not a danger as a passer as well as a scorer, the goalkeeper will have an easy reading. Yes Caufiel is an elite scorer, but he has always been a great playmaker. When his shooting was less effective, he always managed to fall back on his passing skills. Currently what the team is doing is working on talents that he already had, but that he was not exploiting because he didn't need them to perform. In addition, they make it more versatile and useful, less risky to use at all times. Basically they don't confine him to a role as a power play specialist. Letting a player be what he is, it is leaving him to himself, letting him cling to the easiest things, to develop bad habit, to be imperfect. Look at Ovechkin, they let him be whatever he wanted for a very long time, and he was a one-dimensional offensive player and unreliable defensively who always stuck to the same shot that worked less and less. Until Barry Trotz trained him, broke him, taught him to play defense and make plays with his teammates. The result was an immediate Stanley Cup and a more dangerous, more versatile player what had favors his career in the long term. Another example? Patrick Roy...He had a constent desire to change and adapt his game which was a rare quality in the late 80's and the 90's, but his openness of mind and ability to apply what he had learned in training, allowed him to revolutionize his position and be one of the best of all time.
@@TpsTerminator Your example with Ovechkin isn't comparable to Caufield's situation. Just look at the Shooting Percentage (S%) of Ovechkin during all the years with and without Trotz as a coach. It's about the same. Now, look at Caufield's S%; last year, it took Caufield 100 shots to score 16.5 goals. With a S% of 7.5% this year, it took him 219 shots to get to 16.5 goals. That's more than double. You don't want that. The name of the game is to put the puck in the net first and foremost if you want to win. Of course, he will have more passes this year with Slafkovsky, but 40-goal scorers are too hard to find to fiddle with their style too much. Not only that, but he's getting harassed by fans and journalists who want to see him score more often; you can't expect players to be happy if they suffer too much. What free agent would like to come to Montreal as a 40-goal scorer only to fall to 20? None! Montreal won all these cups because they had the best players, not because they were smarter than everyone else.
@@CamHC Obviously, it is not comparable on everything... I am only taking the example for the defensive purposes... Ovy was never really good in defence, nor in forcheck. .. But Caufield become good at it.... anyway the main point is: the game has changed since then. Do you know who has joined the NHL since Ovy won the cup? Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes. or to prevent this from happening. Scoring a goal it is just one second, while preventing it takes 60 minutes minimum. There in the next draft, Cole Eiserman, the Canadiens may have a chance to pick him as he drops out of the top 3. .. He has 40 goal potential and more + +. Do you know why he fell? Not good enough on defense... Since when have you been paralyzed by what bullies think? They both deep fool, who cares. Look Slaf, he never cared. > with an 8 million contract in pockets? lol...seriously, if we go for big free agents we'll be doomed. The only free agent we need is the bottom 6, and we will build our stars. I trust our team staff hockey knowledge and judging by what you write, I don't trust yours.
He has to build up his upper body another 10-15 lbs would help him out tremendously in high traffic areas
I agree with that assessment. He's played with a lot more edge in the past few games. Maybe Slaf's presence is puffing him up a bit. Can't help but think that the one-two punch/presence of Slaf and Cole is going to create more space for the little nipper. Here's hoping!
Hes already huge in the upper body
I love our little golden retriever, I just hope he can contribute a little more offensively next season. It's so obvious he has the skill and ability to be an elite scorer, he just seems to have the worst luck in the world.
Fortunately he won't end up as an one-dimensional elite goal scorer player. Thank you for this year which will have made him a two-way player, a playmaker AND while had maked him resourceful elite goal scorer (he second goal scorer on our team... so you know, relativity...)
No he was so cute 57.00
Dady boy,easy
Moe-zin-ee.
Hobbit stud king 🤴
How good is your bad
Good thing there's no hitting allowed in the new NHL, not many survive with this size without having a goon.
They said the same to Maurice Richard and his brother Henri... and by this time, goon was keeping their stick to fight.
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Now show games on national tv in the us smh
Even when the Montreal Canadiens are playing against an American team, the U.S. doesn't show the hockey game?
@@BouchIsOnTheLoose702 They do
@showtimex31 not this season. Montreal has zero games televised on the ESPN national broadcast. They would only be seen on local broadcasts in the USA.
Playing with Slavkosky slashed his point output by 50%.
by slash u mean increase ?
:)
Would have been better with a different interviewer but a good piece. I skipped the whole backstory and watched from the point he joined the Habs.
Who is this guy? I’ve never heard of him before. I certainly don’t know who or where he plays. I know Connor Bedard. The best Rookie in a long time.
Connor who? Oh you mean Mcdavid right?
Never forget they made you wear those filthy face diapers while watching these sweaty, panting guys skate around hugging each other.
5ft8????????????
“40 goal scorer” 🤣