It’s no secret, the New York Islanders struck gold with Mathew Barzal this year. He’s exceeded any and all expectations for his rookie season and is now putting up a rookie year for the record books.
In the Islanders loss on Thursday night, Barzal continued his climb in the all-time assists category for rookies. He’s now seventh all time, with 56 helpers, trailing Mario Lemieux, by just one assist. The fact the Mario Lemieux and Mathew Barzal can be mentioned in the same breath is amazing.
With eight games remaining Mathew Barzal has a good shot to move up this list even more so:
Though it came in a losing cause for the @NYIslanders, Mathew Barzal had a helper to move into 7th on this list of great playmaking rookie centre icemen pic.