Rookie center Mason McTavish has been tough to ignore with five goals in the first seven games of a 10-game homestand, including three in the past two
. McTavish, scoring two goals and adding two assists vs. the Sharks, became the second-youngest player in Ducks’ history with a four-point game, according to the NHL’s Morning Skate. The youngest? Stanislav Chistov, at 19 years, 176 days, on Oct. 10, 2002.That promptly sent us down the Chistov rabbit hole. The four-point performance by Chistov, on one goal and three assists, came in the Ducks’ season opener vs. St. Louis and was the most points in an NHL debut since 1977.
Another player who has been firmly in the rookie mix – the Coyotes’ Matias Maccelli – suffered a lower-body injury just before the holiday break and could be out for six weeks, according to Craig Morgan of PHNX Sports.Asked if he is paying close attention to the rookie race, McTavish said, “Not really. Honestly, I just have a couple of buddies around the league, my age, and I just check in on how they’re doing.
The one good friend McTavish specifically mentioned was Kent Johnson of the Columbus Blue Jackets, who has 16 points in 34 games. Columbus happens to be the third stop – on Jan. 19 – on the Ducks’ upcoming trip.Injured defenseman Jamie Drysdale was talking about how McTavish and Trevor Zegras are usually the last players on the ice at practice. It looks like they are developing a brotherly-type dynamic, but Ducks coach Dallas Eakins had a better description.
“The way him and Z go back at each other, they’re like two little puppy dogs that are playing together, right?” Eakins said on Thursday. “One runs over and bites the other one….He does have a lot of kid in him as well.”
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