Kasperi Kapanen has played 17 regular season NHL games and has only one point. Normally, that might raise some eyebrows, but when he followed that up with two goals in six games in the playoffs last year, he won a place in many hearts. That phenomenon also goes under the dull name recency bias, so we have to set our hearts aside and take a more clear-eyed look at the man I like to call Kappy with as many exclamation points as I like when I watch him play.
I’ll try to be objective. First, though:
Kapanen, as you can see from the votes and from Friday’s story on Connor Brown, was nearly tied with Brown for “not the top four”.