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You know it because today, everybody, duck, We're gonna talk some Anaheim

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Ducks. You know what, I
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Severe. And that over there,
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corner. I'm doing well over here. Good. It's good to be back.

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I'm really excited to talk about a
really interesting team and to move along

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with these team previews. I feel
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a couple of these. It's I
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through. Eh yeah, yeah,
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the corner, Victor. When I
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I imagine you, like in the
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those one of those little tables up
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whatever it is they do, or
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where I envision you, Victor,
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Victor, there's a couple of things
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be right back after this The Talk Ducks.

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Our next guest is here to talk
to us about the Anaheim Ducks.

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It is Derek Lee of the Hockey
News. Derek, how you doing today?

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I'm good, Jesse, how are
you doing good? Good? It's

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the quiet time of the year for
the Ducks. Unfortunately didn't work out well

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for them. We got some bad
news. We've got some good news here.

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Just setting up the team and their
season. There were two teams to

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finish below them in the NHL standings. Penalty kill was the NHL's second worst

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efficiency shots for bottom pop. I'm
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that actually, when you dig into
the stats, it was a slight improvement

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from the year before in a lot
of categories. But the Ducks are doing

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the right thing. They are rebuilding. They traded away five players during the

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season, and particularly most of the
team that was pushing thirty was on the

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way out to new places. There
are lots of exciting young players here.

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We're going to get into a lot
of them, most of whom have already

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debuted. Looking at it, there's
not beeny guys in their prospect system that

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I saw that a whole ton of
them who haven't debuted, who are their

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top guys. But when these guys
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going to be a lot of growing
pains associated with that. So that's part

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of what we're seeing too. How
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this team in this past season?
And is this something that's going to be

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able to come together to be competitive
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have the upside of a strong playoff
team. What do you think of the

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Duck's trajectory here, Derek, Like
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from last season, I think,
honestly, anything is an improvement from last

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season. They were at the bottom
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category that you want to mention.
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Cronin that did a lot for their
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defensively. Like I just said,
anything was better than last year, but

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they were pretty bad defensively, just
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having the worst record in the league
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Is bringing in Greg Cronin and he
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think you want to see a little
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just because of how many young guys
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Like you mentioned, I think penalties
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having a bad penalty kill that can
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They all had a lot of injuries. I think out of their who were

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their expected top six, I think
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together, So obviously that's not ideal
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from those guys. I think now
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part is done for the most part, and now you're just going to building

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now and you want to take those
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want them to start pushing towards the
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veterans to glue that core together and
start pushing for a wild card spot or

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even just a regular division spot.
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potentially, I guess you could say
seasons was from Frank Vitronto. He had

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He's thirty years old, had a
banner season career high in goals with thirty

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seven previous high was twenty four career
high in points of sixty point pay sorry

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with previous of forty two career high
in time on ice nearly two minutes more

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than last season and nearly four minutes
more than his previous career high. He

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shot thirteen point six percent, which
is definitely a bit higher than his career

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average by about three percent, but
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not talking in the twenties here,
and his PDO is actually pretty low,

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as was his ozone start, although
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not getting too many offensive zone starts. I think his time and I might

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be slightly limited by his defensive impact, which continue to be poor, even

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though his offensive metrics seemed very strong. So I guess the big question here,

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Derek, is the Toronto going to
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season? Can he get at least
over thirty goals? Again? This seems

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like it was out of the blue
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new gear out? What do you
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you don't really see that very often
a guy having a career at that point,

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especially on the team that's not necessarily
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finish in the standings, but typically
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a team that's that low in the
standings, where one guy is popping off,

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so to speak. I think for
the Toronto he's a very shot happy

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guy. There's not a shot that
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But I think it's just I'm not
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a finger on why he did so
well. Just the guys that he plays

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with, they're able to set him
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exact same thing. He wouldn't be
here if it wasn't for the guys on

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the team setting them up time to
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just mentioned, he actually plays a
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mean it was probably the forward that
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especially after the trade deadline. So
he plays in all situations, will play

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it even strength, power play,
penalty kill. He led the team shots,

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block shots and hits. He can't
do it all. You need him

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to play goalie, I'm sure he
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in any situation. Let's talk about
Troy Terry. This guy's had an interesting

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career arc ifs Mede, of course, blew up a couple of years ago.

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This year, seventy six games was
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was a tick down from the prior
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quite streaky if you look at his
game log throughout the season. But he's

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now one of the most seasoned players
on the team. I think of Troy

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Terry as like one of these young
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to gel for a few years.
But he debuted in twenty seventeen eighteen,

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and if my eyeballing of Hockey Reference
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in Jacob's overberg remained from that far
back. Troy Terry being the fourth most

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tenured player on the team, he
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It seems like he was generally positive, although he did say the mental part

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of the game was rough on him
this year with the losing. What do

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you make of Troy Terry's year and
what do you expect from him going forward.

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Troy is a very cerebral guy.
He just he gets into it a

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lot mentally. Like you mentioned,
I think that was something that kind of

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bogged him down when he was first
coming into the league. I think he

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really struggled to adjust to just everything
from the NHL, going from the collegiate

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level to the NHL. He spent
a couple of seasons at the AHL.

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I think that really did wonders for
him and Dallas Aikins, the former head

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coach of the Ducks, he was
actually able to work on Troy and get

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him to that level where he's able
to mentally fight through things even when it's

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not going so well. He had
a really slow start to the season,

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and I think that kind of nodded
him a little bit. As like you

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said, the production was a little
streaky. I think he would like to

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be more consistent. I'm sure Andrew
Patford Beek would like him to be more

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consistent now that he has that big
contract. I think it'll be interesting to

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see where everybody's at next year when
they're healthy. Like I said, injuries

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played a big part in Guy's not
getting consistent production. He played most of

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the season with Leo Carlson. I
think he should be at least in a

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top six row next season. I
think there will be some moving parts depending

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on what they do in free agency
and maybe trades as well. But he

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had his third consecutive twenty goal season, led the team and takeaways. He's

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a really good two way forward.
He doesn't play on the penalty killer just

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yet, but he's great at four
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defensive zone. And he'll be on
the power play as well, So it'll

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be interesting to see where he fits
in everything, but he'll definitely be a

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big part of what they do next
season. Yeah, with the second worst

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powerful penalty kill in the league,
they could try some things. It would

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seem to me, but I don't
know. Mason McTavish one of the top

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young guys coming into the team.
Mctavish's even strength offense was the best on

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the team, was a jump from
his rookie year, although this year he

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missed eighteen games and was shut down
early with a knee injury. He also

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missed some games in December from an
upper body injury, So talking about injuries,

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Mason McTavish was certainly not exempt from
those. What make this guy was

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such a touted prospect coming in What
do you make of mctavish's progress and could

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this guy end up a first line
point per game type or there's obviously a

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lot of competition at the top on
this team now, But what kind of

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role do you think he's going to
settle into. I think right now they

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definitely want Leo Carlson as the top
line center, and then after that it's

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not really a first and second line. I think that's more of just a

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top six and you have all these
interchangeable pieces. I know Tavabi talked a

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little bit about that and his end
of the season interview is just the versatility

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of the guys that they have now. There's so many ways that they can

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go about this. So I think
McTavish, ideally you want him to sloan

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and is that top six forward behind
the Carlson line. It got off to

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a really good start with trying to
and Ryan Strom. They had a great

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first month of the season, and
at least Nick Tavish he tailed off a

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little bit, and like you said, injuries got to I think he had

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a little bit of penalty trouble similar
to what Trevor Zegiss went through last years

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penalty troubles and then struggling defensively.
So I think that they want to work

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with him on that. He said
that he himself wants to work more on

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his skating and get a little bit
quicker, and then from a special team

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standpoint, he'll definitely be on the
power play again. I think he's one

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of their most dangerous guys in the
power plays. Got really nice shot,

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and then just being able to work
on this passing as well. I think

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that will help him ground out his
game and be that two way center that

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they wanted to be. You already
mentioned Zegris, so he might as well

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talk about him now. After sixty
seven and sixty six point paces and nearly

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full season secrets, was limited to
just thirty one games played and a forty

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one point pace. He broke his
ankle needed surgery, should be go good

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to go for next season, although
you can certainly comment on that his time

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on ice this season fell, as
did his power play time on ice,

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although just by a little bit,
it looks like his defensive metrics improved.

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It seems like that might have been
a focus for him, though he still

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only clocked in at about the twelfth
best forward in terms of course he against

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for sixty Next season, Zegres will
be an RFA there have already been trade

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rumors circling. So Derek, what
do you think next season holds for Zegres.

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Can he get back to that sixty
five plus point player and will it

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be with the Ducks. I definitely
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think the trade rumor things are out
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got shipped out to Philadelphia, nickseuck
on a wave of its own and people

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were projecting Zeriously be everywhere but Anaheim
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yeah, I think he can definitely
get back to that point pace. Just

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in the last eight games of the
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pace, and I think he was
really happy with the way he finished the

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season, especially after everything he'd been
through. He came in the camp wait

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because of the contract dispute, and
he picked up an injury, which was

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ostiitis pubis and that's something that Logan
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played six games. So for Zegrest
to come back from that, he had

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the broken ankle, but just to
come back from that initial injury, he

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said he felt a lot better after
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He can play both the center and
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Leo Carlson at the beginning of the
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he played a little bit of center
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So I think, like McTavish,
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it's playing with someone like Carlson or
playing with McTavish or whoever. He definitely

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has the potential to get back to
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he'll be on the power play a
lot as well. And I would say

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that he is the most dynamic playmaker
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out for so much of the season, you could definitely tell that the offense

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struggled about him. You get a
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him with McTavish, Terry, the
Toronto Carlson, like, those are the

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core guys you want to try got
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Zegris and Carlson, those guys are
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Yeah, definitely. And for those
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had his pubis is an inflammation of
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and pretty much doing anything really hurts, and as you said, Logan Kutcher

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sounds like he might not ever play
again partially related to that, and that's

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that's pretty serious. So it was
good to see Zegris get back. We

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also saw him at the World Championship
for Team USA. He seemed like he

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struggled a bit, and the Americans
did overall at times. But it was

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good to see him back in red, white and blue and at least look

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forward to brighter things with the Ducks
next season. Let's move on to Leo

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Carlson, the next forward we're going
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Ducks kept Leo with the NHL club
all season long. They rationed his games,

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played his time on ice a little
bit. He still played eighteen oh

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seven average in fantasy. It was
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was going to play. But when
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You know, in the daily sort
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was good. But as a season
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he would play only every other cut
game or something like that. He offensively

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and defensively, his metrics were pretty
incredible. Especially for a young player.

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He was definitely one of the best
forward statistically in terms of play driving on

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this not so good Ducks team.
His shots were a little bit low,

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which was a bit frustrating, but
overall he brought the Purfs to a decent

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extent, with his blocks and hits
both being over half per game, which

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was nice. So, Derek,
what can we see from Carlson next season?

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Is he gonna play in every game? What kind of production can we

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expect from him above that forty three
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I would expect him to playing every
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it was a really weird season for
him, just because he missed so

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much time, not only due to
the game management plan, but he had

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a lot of injuries too. He
missed the start of the season because of

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an injury that he suffered in practice, and then he had a couple more

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injuries along the way. I think
it was definitely frustrating for the team and

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for him personally. He's still finished
the second on the team. In take

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with with forty one is it was
a really big struggle in the face off

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circle. That's something that he definitely
wants to improve. On. It's something

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that he talked about in the middle
of the season and how he wants to

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get better at that and some of
that kind of comes from not playing center

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full time when he was in the
Squish League with Orbro, But he,

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like you said, he had really
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Actually played on the penalty kill at
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and they did a pretty good job
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opportunities for themselves. Shorthandeds, I
think, like I mentioned before, Carlson

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will be on that top line.
It's just a matter of who's going to

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be playing with. But he's definitely
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I'd probably put him behind only Zegres
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and he still has a lot of
room to grow, especially to you mentioned

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the low amount of shots. I
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so that he can become that dual
threat on offense. We like points pick

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them out with a couple of players
and get your sense of which one of

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them is going to have the better
offensive impact the next year. And for

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this a couple of the older guys
on the team. They both come up

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in the show already, Ryan Strom, Alex Colorn. They are both on

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the team for a couple more years. It reasonably high contracts probably come off

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the books right about the same time
as some of these young guys are out

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there to get paid. Both of
them, Strom's had forty one points in

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seventy nine games and Klorn had thirty
six and sixty three, so both a

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little over half a point per game. Who do you like between these two

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and what do you make of these
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I think in terms of opportunity it's
probably going to be Alex Klorn who gets

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more of that. He missed a
little bit of time due to a broken

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pinky and I had arthroscopic knee surgery
in January, so they missed the beginning

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of the season and then he was
still a little bit of the middle of

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the season, but he played with
Oleil Carlson for the most part for most

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of that. I don't know they'll
be with him, but the last game

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of the season played with Cutter Goche
as well, so it was colorin Carlson

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GoChi, So it'll be interesting to
see where they mix and match those pieces.

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Like I said, there's a lot
of versatility as well, so I

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think you look at it on the
face value, I think Colorin's going to

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get the bigger piece of the pie
from the start. I think Strom will

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probably be on a third line.
Maybe he interchanges with whoever is not playing

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on that top six, but I
think Colorin he'll probably have that upper hand.

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And both of those guys are on
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there will be a new power play
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so that can change things up.
But I think Claurin, just because

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he has the pedigree and he's had
that production coming from Tampa, I think

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he has the upper hand in that
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We're gonna start with Cam Fowler,
who is one of the I feel

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like one of the quieter lead defensemen
in the league. His advanced stats were

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not great. You would expect that
to happen with the guy who played a

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ton of minutes on a team that
wasn't that great. His goals above slash

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below replacement was the worst on the
team actually, but the points nearly half

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of which came on the power play
looked nice. Thirty nine points for defenseman

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in eighty one games, eighteen of
those on the power play. He got

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the preponderance of the power play Tom
on Ice, and we'll be talking about

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a couple of guys who were coming
up on his heels for that type of

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a role. He's down to two
more years on a big eight year deal

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that he signed, so at age
thirty, the bigger hit on the book,

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six point five mil is coming to
its conclusive stages. But what type

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of a role are you expecting.
Is camp Faler going to hang on to

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that type of role? What are
you expecting from him next year? Derek,

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Yeah, it's really interesting. I
think Salar definitely played a lot more

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than he probably should have. A
lot of that was due to circumstances,

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deciding a lot of young guys on
the team. I think in situation you

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want to lean on the veteran guys. I think that's what Cronin did a

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lot in his first year. Is
he lean on guys like cam Fower and

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Rad Koguis and Yogio Lubushkin when he
was still on the team to just eat

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a lot of those minutes while the
young guys were getting their feet wet and

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adjusting to the league. It'll be
interesting to see where they go from next

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year. Like you mentioned, there's
a couple of young guys coming up,

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Pavel Minchikov, Owen Zelwiger, Jackson
Lacomb as well. Those are all guys

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who play left handed, as zel
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of the season on his offhand,
and it'll be interesting to see if they

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go back to that. I don't
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continue playing on his offhand in the
long term capacities. I definitely think that

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Faler will be that guy that Cronin
leans on. I don't think it should

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be as much as twenty four to
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interesting to see where they go from
here and maybe ease off on leading him

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as much. But I think he'll
definitely still be at least on special teams

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power playing, maybe not as much, but I think penalty kill will still

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be on there while the young guys
continue to develop. But it's really interesting

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because Cam follows the longest tenured duck
on the team. It's Camon John Gibson

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is the leftovers now from the old
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Adam Henery's no longer on the team, so he valers just that veteran presence

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on the blue line, and I
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now, but just trying to limit
how much time he's playing and then also

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get the young guys a little bit
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So I have long maintained that Cam
Fowler is the most boring power play defenseman

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in fantasy hockey, but we have
to wait for the others to be ready

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and have them. Minchikov I think
might be the next. But we only

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saw his first season in the NHL, and I think it was pretty darn

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impressive and his draft plus two season. Minchikof jumps straight from the OHL to

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the NHL, a pretty difficult jump
in terms of how many levels of quality.

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That is, he played sixty three
games. He was fourth of all

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the regulars in terms of time on
ice. After Drysdale left, only Cam

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Fowler had more power play time on
ice, and even with the diminished opportunity,

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Minchikov had seven power play points even
though he had a lot less total

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time on ice, his offensive impact
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His hits and blocks are good.
Shots are a bit low, but

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I think defensively he still has a
little bit of work to do, although

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it was good at times. We
were just talking about this, but do

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you think that he can Minchikov can
take over on the top power play regularly

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or do you think they will split
some time with he and Falure. What

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do you think is going on?
And do you think he can get over

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a forty five point pace next season? He was at thirty six this season.

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I'm not sure in terms of maybe
responsibility where they'll go with the power

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play. It's hard to tell,
just because of they don't know who the

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power play coach is going to be
for next season. So I think once

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they nail those things down, it'll
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In terms of who's running the power
play. They they had a rotation

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at the end of the year with
Foal and Minchicav and Zelweger. I think

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in the long term it will be
Minchikav and Zelwegar kind of running those units

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on their own. It's really impressive
how well that Minchikav adjusted from going from

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the HL straight to the NHL.
He was really dynamic offensively at the bend

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of the year. I think they
had to reel him in a little bit

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because there's things that you can't do
at the OHL level that people try to

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do at the NHL level. So
I think there was a little bit tougher

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for him once he went through that. And then he had a couple of

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injuries as well. He had a
separated shoulder in January and then he had

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a bone contusion at the end of
the season. But he should be ready

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for a training camp in the fall, and I think he'll slot in behind

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Cam Fowler. It's tough to see
who will play with. He played a

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little bit with Radkogodis at the end
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they do in free agency and trades, he might be playing with someone else.

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But I think if he's getting a
lot of power play time, he

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gets penalty kill time as well.
He can definitely get to that for forty

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forty five point pace. You mentioned
Olin Zelweger, a long time favor of

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the show. We've really talked him
up at one point, really like one

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of the top defensive prospects in the
league. Now there's a question whether he's

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been passed up by such a great
defensive prospect on his own team in Mitchikov.

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I don't know what to make last
year, he didn't play that many

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games in the NHL, but as
you said, was in the mix for

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power play at the end. Where
does Zelweger fall out long term on this

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team and what are you expecting in
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he played on his offhand with Fowler
at the end of the season. It's

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really weird because just because of how
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Zelweger got to play top paira minutes. I think that's the big statement.

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Is easy able to play with Cam
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and he doesn't get penalty kill time, but he does get power play time.

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And he's probably the most I would
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guy on the blue line ahead of
Minchikov. Just the things that Zelweger is

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able to do with the pucket just
so incredible sometimes. And his skating is

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really great. I min Chicov's skating
is great as well, but I think

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zel Wadred has an extra element offensively
when it comes to things like that.

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He also blocks a surprisingly high amount
of shots. You look at a guy

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with Zelwig and he wouldn't expect him
to block that many shots. But just

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in the small time that he was
in the NHL, he blocked like pretty

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much a shot or to like every
single game. So he should get power

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00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,920
play time, I think if he's
going to be at the NHL level on

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a full time basis, which he
should be. He was. He was

408
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,880
called up in January, he get
sent back down before the All Star break,

409
00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:36,680
and then recalled right before the trade
deadline. So he finished out the

410
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,880
season with a team, and I
think he'll get every opportunity to break camp

411
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,799
with the team again in the fall. And I just got to mention him.

412
00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:49,200
Rad Kogudas shouts because US fantasy players
love this guy. All the hits,

413
00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:52,119
all the you know, all the
defensive stats that he piles up.

414
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:56,720
And by the way, if you
think that he's just an empty stats type

415
00:26:56,759 --> 00:27:00,599
guy, he was number two on
the team and goals above replacement. Uh

416
00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:03,440
Radkos. You know, from a
real life perspective, I know sometimes he

417
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,160
doesn't get the respect, but do
you expect Raiko Gudas to have a role

418
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,599
with his team similar to what he's
had in the past. Oh, definitely.

419
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,200
I think, just like you look
at the kind of the dearth of

420
00:27:14,319 --> 00:27:17,680
right handed options on the team right
now, Like Radko, Gudis is the

421
00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:21,680
top option and he's going to play
a big role. He's playing for check

422
00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:23,559
It right now in the World Championships, are going to the Golden Medal Game

423
00:27:23,599 --> 00:27:27,839
along with goaltender lukashto Stall, So
I think Gouas will have a really big

424
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,200
role again next season. Like he
said, he gets a lot of block

425
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,079
shots, a lot of hits.
He's a really physical guy. I think

426
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,799
health is just the concern as he
gets a little bit older. Just the

427
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,160
way he plays that can lead to
a lot of injuries. So as long

428
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,400
as he can stay healthy, I
think he'll be a really solid presence again

429
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,200
on the blue line for them.
If there's one thing about the Ducks that

430
00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:51,119
I've always said is that they know
how to draft and develop defenseman. And

431
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:56,119
not only do they have Minchikov and
Zellweger and some other guys that we're not

432
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,880
even talking about because they're not his
fantasy relevant. Even though they're good players.

433
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,960
But Tristan Leunou is another one to
just mention. Injury limited him to

434
00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:07,880
thirteen games played. He missed part
of the early season, and infection caused

435
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,680
him to miss the World Junior Championship
infection of the knee. He had six

436
00:28:11,759 --> 00:28:15,000
games in AHL, seven in the
NHL, but he had a few points

437
00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:18,119
while he was there, So who
knows if that thirty five point pace was

438
00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:23,559
just noise based on the seven games
or what. He certainly has some offensive

439
00:28:23,559 --> 00:28:27,680
pedigree. So do you think that
Tristan Leno Derek is gonna play in the

440
00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:32,480
NHL next season or is he going
to more likely have a full AHL season

441
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:37,559
and have that transition that often is
needed to professional hockey. I was a

442
00:28:37,599 --> 00:28:40,799
little bit surprised that he actually broke
him with the Ducks this season, just

443
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,440
because of where the team was at
and they had Illi Lubushkin at the time,

444
00:28:44,519 --> 00:28:47,680
so they had Brad Kgouse and Labushkin
in those right handed roles, and

445
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:49,720
then Jamie Dresdel was still on the
team, so it was weird to see

446
00:28:49,759 --> 00:28:53,079
where Luno was going to fit.
And then Dresde went down with injury really

447
00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:56,960
early on, so you know,
got an opportunity to play in seven games,

448
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,480
and then he went to the World
Juniors and he was supposed to be

449
00:29:00,599 --> 00:29:02,920
one of the top guys for a
team Canada there, and then he got

450
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:07,839
sick and then he had a staff
infection, and then he just didn't play

451
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,440
for the rest of the season because
he spent the whole rest of that time

452
00:29:11,519 --> 00:29:15,599
recovering from the staff infection. When
he didn't even start skating again until April,

453
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,519
so he missed a lot of time. And then now just going to

454
00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:22,480
the offseason, that's pretty much six
seven eight months where he hasn't played in

455
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,880
a game situation. So I think
having a really good summer and kind of

456
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,119
just getting back to where he was
at before, having a good training camp,

457
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,960
I think that he probably should start
the season in San Diego. He's

458
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,119
going to have a regular role.
If he even presses in training camp and

459
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,480
he makes the team out of camp
again, then that's great. But I

460
00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:44,440
think at the end of the day, he really just needs to get playing

461
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:48,200
time because he's been gone for so
long and I'm just recovering from everything that's

462
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,480
happened to him. Another question about
the defenseman with so many good high end

463
00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:56,519
offensive defensemen, I know I don't
at least I don't think you have a

464
00:29:56,559 --> 00:30:00,559
crystal ball. But do you think
who do you think, like three or

465
00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:03,400
four years from now is going to
run the top power play for the Ducks

466
00:30:03,519 --> 00:30:10,680
Minchikov, Zellweger, Luno or possibly
someone else that is tough And like you

467
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,160
said, I don't have a crystal
ball, but I think just from an

468
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,599
offensive standpoint, I think Zelwiger probably
has the most potential to run his own

469
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,359
unit. I think when the pock
is on his stick, he's just able

470
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,920
to do so many great things with
it. He's really shot happy too as

471
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,720
well. I think he's probably a
lot more shot happy than Luna or Minchikadz.

472
00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:30,960
But having his presence on the blue
line and be able to walk the

473
00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:36,119
blue line on the power play,
I think he has a really dynamic status

474
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,240
about himself, and I think he
has the potential to be that high offensive

475
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,880
guy for the team. Awesome.
He was always my answer, even when

476
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,559
Drysdell was there. But I've also
really liked what I've seen for Minchikov,

477
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,079
so they have a lot of good
options. Let's move on to the goalies.

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00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:55,759
The Ducks were ranked twenty third and
expected goals against per sixty, and

479
00:30:55,839 --> 00:31:00,160
they conceded the twenty third ranked actual
goals per sixty. Consistent there ducks.

480
00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:07,160
Their goalies both performed a little bit
under expected looking at some of these numbers.

481
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:14,920
Gibson had a little bit low expected
save percentage and he performed slightly better

482
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,920
but pretty much at expected. Dostal
was given pretty decent protection by the team

483
00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:23,400
and performed well under expected. But
it was really nice to finally see a

484
00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:27,880
split of eaving games between Dostaal and
Gibson. He had forty four to Gibson's

485
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:32,200
forty six. The team offered him
pretty good protection. As I mentioned,

486
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,920
he wasn't able to get anywhere near
that, but we've seen as of this

487
00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:41,640
recording. We saw Doshtell have a
twenty six save shutout against Team USA and

488
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,599
the World Championships and beat Team Sweden
on their way to the championship. And

489
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:51,079
I think it's important to note that
this Chechia team that Dostell is playing for

490
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,839
has two NHL goalies with more experience
than him, Peter Marazak and Karl vel

491
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,839
Melka, and the Czech team decided
to go with Doshtall. I think that

492
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,799
it's really impressive and a nod in
his direction. But let's talk also about

493
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:07,720
Gibson. He has three more years
at six point four million, and it's

494
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:10,680
been four seasons Derek since Gibson had
a positive goal save above expected, and

495
00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:15,359
that was only one goal save above
expected. It was also the only time

496
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:21,119
he's done anything positive in his goal
save above expected in five seasons. When

497
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,279
we talked to kat Silverman, she
noted that there are too many prospect goalies

498
00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:27,480
in the system and some could use
some HL time. So I don't know,

499
00:32:27,599 --> 00:32:29,680
maybe there's a move there. I
know it's been talked about for a

500
00:32:29,759 --> 00:32:31,640
long time and we have not seen
a Gibson trade. So, Derek,

501
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:37,279
do you think we will see Gibson
moved? Will Doshtall be the next Duck

502
00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:39,480
starter? What do you see the
breakdown there? If Gibson is still here?

503
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,519
And will anyone want these Duck goalies
in fantasy next season? Will they

504
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:49,400
be any better? Overall? I
would fully expect Gibson to be an Anaheim

505
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,160
Duck next season. I think those
trade rumors have been going on for a

506
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:57,519
little while. That is, I
compare it to the Zegris rumors. There's

507
00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,880
just those kind of every time something
comes up like a goaltending issue for a

508
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,400
team is Gibson is always one of
those at the top of the line where

509
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,000
people think, oh, is are
they going to go out and get this

510
00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:13,039
guy? But I think the biggest
obstacle is the salary. Is as we

511
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,440
look at the new age of goaltending, you have a lot of guys with

512
00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:19,599
tandems like the Islanders and the Ruins, and not a lot of teams are

513
00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:23,039
committing to that one top of the
line goaltender. Gibson's not really that anymore.

514
00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:27,759
I definitely think that he can still
be a really good goaltender when he

515
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:34,680
has proper protection, but he's been
not great from a consistency standpoint for the

516
00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:37,000
last couple of seasons. Played the
least amount of games in a full season

517
00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:42,359
since twenty fifteen to sixteen, so
almost a decade ago, and he lost

518
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,720
his last seven games of the season, allowing four plus goals in all seven.

519
00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:50,359
So it was a really tough and
to the season for Gibson. I

520
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,319
definitely think he could do with being
rotated more because in past seasons the heavy

521
00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:58,480
borkload has really caught up to him
at the end the season. In February

522
00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:01,000
and March when you need your tender
to be strong as you head into the

523
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:05,680
playoffs. So next season, I
think it could be a little bit more

524
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,320
of a fifty. It was more
of a fifty to fifty split this year,

525
00:34:07,639 --> 00:34:09,719
but I think it'll be more of
the same as they try to get

526
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:15,679
Dostall more games under his belt.
So as Gibbs is a do Staal the

527
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,079
starter of the future as he seems
to be, and how long until you

528
00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:22,000
think he takes over, because as
we know we have if you don't think

529
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,280
Gibson's moving, he's got three more
seasons. So are they going to just

530
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,840
go fifty to fifty and then maybe
the season after sixty to forty? Do

531
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,280
Staal or is Dostell not the heir
apparent? What do you think about him?

532
00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:36,280
When I asked Pat Verbeek in his
end of the season interview about that,

533
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,519
he said that they might just go
with the hot hand approach and it's

534
00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:42,719
just a matter of who's playing better. And we did see at the end

535
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,719
of the season gosh O Staal was
the better goaltender and those last eight or

536
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,400
so games, also with a Zigris
in the mix, they played a lot

537
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,480
better. Is they were close to
full health. They weren't quite there because

538
00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:55,679
min Chicago and McTavish were out,
but for the most part, they had

539
00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,280
everybody that they want in the lineup, and we saw that they He played

540
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,199
a lot better at the end of
the season as opposed to maybe the middle

541
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,079
of the season in December when they
were on a nine game losing streak.

542
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,440
I think does Stall definitely had a
lot to do with that. He's so

543
00:35:08,679 --> 00:35:13,519
calm and poised, and that's what
guys talk about, our guys on the

544
00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:15,880
team talk about, is just how
calm and poised he is all the time,

545
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,639
and he's just always in the right
place. He doesn't have a lot

546
00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:22,800
of extra movement in his technique.
And he also picked up his first NHL

547
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,920
shutout in March against the Blackhawks.
Like I mentioned before, he was playing

548
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,000
for check yet the world actually had
a thirty six save shodow I had to

549
00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:32,199
type out I had a typo in
my tweet the other day. He had

550
00:35:32,199 --> 00:35:37,000
a thirty six saved shoutout against ten
USA. They just won this morning against

551
00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:40,480
Sweden to advance to the gold medal
round. So this could be a really

552
00:35:40,599 --> 00:35:45,400
great momentum carrier for him going to
next season and just giving him that confidence

553
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:50,559
as he goes into his second full
season. This has been some great stuff

554
00:35:50,679 --> 00:35:53,159
on the Anaheim Ducks. Derek.
How can people go out there and keep

555
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:58,840
up with your work? I'm on
Twitter at Derek Underscore Elite at twenty seven.

556
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:04,320
Everything I posted out there, updates
on the team and articles and whatnot.

557
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,760
That's definitely the easiest place for people
to find my work at all.

558
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,920
Right, thanks for coming on.
Good luck to those Ducks next year,

559
00:36:17,079 --> 00:36:23,760
Wilson, that's good fires passed up. Oh my goodness, long quick grab.

560
00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:34,119
Now it's your wingler goalie talk but
Kat Silverman Kat's Instincts joined once again

561
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:39,039
by Kat Silverman in Gold mag to
talk prospect Goalies Anaheim Ducks edition, and

562
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,639
we are switching it up here.
In terms of who the top goalie is,

563
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,800
it's Thomas Sukanik and he was not
drafted signed last year. Now twenty

564
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,119
one years old, sixty pounds.
He was great for Chechia at the World

565
00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:57,840
Junior Championship last year. This season, he split time between the San Diego

566
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,079
Goals of the HL and Tulsa Oilers
of the ECHL. His run numbers were

567
00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:06,119
pretty decent in both stops and he
saved more goals and expected according to instat

568
00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:09,119
in both locations. Looking at his
hockey prospecting, it has trended down a

569
00:37:09,199 --> 00:37:14,559
little bit from his time in Chukia
to WHL to HL now, but even

570
00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:16,920
though his numbers have been good there, he's got a comp of with Devin

571
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,320
Dubnik. There's also some other comps
like Philip Kustafson. So, Kat,

572
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:27,880
what do your instincts tell us about
Zuchanek. So he's one of the goaltenders

573
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,800
that I got to watch play in
person this past year. Living in San

574
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,400
Diego, I don't always get a
chance to watch everyone play in person because

575
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,119
we obviously don't have an NHL team
here, so I do have to travel

576
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:43,440
to watch the NHLers. But he
looked really good. I was surprised because

577
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:49,000
I came into the game really hoping
that I'd get to see a Cali Klang

578
00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:53,480
play, and the first game that
I went to, I was really bummed

579
00:37:53,559 --> 00:38:00,119
that it wasn't going to be Clang
and it ended up being suchanic and he

580
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:05,119
was a delight to watch. He
looked like, even though the goals are

581
00:38:05,119 --> 00:38:07,360
a really chaotic team to play behind
right now, no matter what their raw

582
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:14,039
numbers look like in each game.
They start off their games really sluggish offensively,

583
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:15,880
and then panic and really try to
put on the offense at the very

584
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,480
end of the game, and it
looks really messy for their goaltenders because essentially,

585
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:23,559
before their goaltender is warmed up,
they're peppered with some really weird,

586
00:38:23,639 --> 00:38:29,760
high danger shots. And I thought
he looked like he was super comfortable with

587
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:35,880
it. He didn't seem like he
had any trouble communicating with the rest of

588
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,280
the team. He didn't come out
to play the puck too often, which

589
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,920
when the team really can't seem to
break out of their own zone, is

590
00:38:44,039 --> 00:38:47,480
super crucial and huge. That being
said, I didn't love what I saw

591
00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:52,320
from the goals this year, so
I would love to see him get just

592
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:58,079
a little more development time, Maybe
watch that HL team take a step forward,

593
00:38:58,159 --> 00:39:00,880
give him something a little bit easier
to play Behind me before I immediately

594
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,559
say yes, he's the future of
the Anaheim Ducks, but I thought it

595
00:39:05,639 --> 00:39:08,920
looked really good then I was pleasantly
surprised by that. Yeah, And I

596
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,079
think the other good thing is he's
available in a lot of leagues. You

597
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:16,360
should go get yourself a share of
Zuchanic if you can. And you already

598
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,920
mentioned that the other guy we're going
to talk about because Kelie Klang is someone

599
00:39:21,079 --> 00:39:23,159
we have talked about, have been
excited about before. Twenty twenty third round

600
00:39:23,199 --> 00:39:28,000
pick by Pittsburgh. He came over
in the Raquel deal six two hundred and

601
00:39:28,039 --> 00:39:31,760
ninety four pounds. I don't really
like what I've been seeing from Afar ever

602
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:36,239
since he left Sweden. Klang's numbers
have been trending down. His run numbers

603
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,360
anyways, his expected goal per cole
conceited has been great though, and maybe

604
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,760
that's this is a little bit of
what you were just talking about the team

605
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:49,199
in front of him, because his
expected goals per goal conceded is better than

606
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,320
even it was at Rogla, and
Rogla being a strong team, maybe it

607
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,920
was hard to outperform that number.
So his hockey prospecting, as I mentioned,

608
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,519
trending down a little bit, but
still really high. In fact,

609
00:39:59,599 --> 00:40:04,800
one of his his main compt here
is Connor Halbuck, which obviously pretty good,

610
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,800
John Gibson, Cravomelka, some other
ones. So Kat, what can

611
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:14,000
you tell us about playing? So
he is the other goaltender that I got

612
00:40:14,039 --> 00:40:15,480
to watch for the goals this year, and yes, I do think that

613
00:40:15,639 --> 00:40:23,880
some of his numbers trending down from
a raw perspective are because the San Diego

614
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,639
goals they're giving nothing, and they're
giving him absolutely nothing to work with.

615
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,760
Sometimes. I had a really special
treat towards the end of the regular season

616
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:39,119
where I got to watch playing play
against Urosova Scarov and that was one of

617
00:40:39,199 --> 00:40:44,480
the most fun goaltending battles I've seen
in a really long time, and it

618
00:40:44,559 --> 00:40:46,679
was all at the HL level,
and I got to bring my seven year

619
00:40:46,679 --> 00:40:50,440
old daughter to set ice level to
watch that, which was really nice,

620
00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:54,880
and playing with the better goaltender in
that name Mascarfv really struggled during that one,

621
00:40:55,079 --> 00:40:59,559
which I don't necessarily think was his
fault. I think the Admirals were

622
00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:07,760
the two teams traded off where Milwaukee
really pushed aggressively from an offensive perspective in

623
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,719
the first half of the game,
and then when they weren't able to put

624
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:15,320
a ton past Klang, they just
took their foot off the brakes and they

625
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,159
said, now, let's give our
first round draft pick a chance to bail

626
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:22,760
us out since we're not really able
to score all that much. And boy

627
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:30,679
did that ever hurt. So I
thought what I saw from Klang looked really

628
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:36,199
nice. He didn't look super energetic, but that's never really been his style.

629
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,280
So I think he's just slowly but
surely figuring out where he fits into

630
00:41:39,679 --> 00:41:45,159
what right now for all intents and
purposes. And I think it's as the

631
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:50,519
Ducks rebuild, a lot of their
good young players end up at the NHL

632
00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:54,679
level prematurely. Whereas on some of
those stronger teams you get some really strong

633
00:41:54,960 --> 00:42:00,320
forwards and defenders staying at the HL
level for an extra year. We don't

634
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,559
really get to see that as much
Nannaheim right now. So really, the

635
00:42:04,639 --> 00:42:07,719
best player he was playing behind was
their captain, whose name just flew right

636
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:13,039
out of my head. I mean, second, I redo that part.

637
00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:15,440
Let me make sure I get this
right. Chase de Leo. Okay,

638
00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:20,920
Yeah, the best player that I
really saw on their team was was their

639
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,239
captain, Chase DeLeo, which isn't
necessarily a super super great thing to see

640
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:30,800
when he's a he's a career ahl
r here. Yeah, I'd like to

641
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:36,039
see Klang maybe take an extra step
forward from a consistency level on a from

642
00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:40,960
a raw numbers perspective. But the
way he handled playing behind a very inconsistent

643
00:42:42,119 --> 00:42:45,199
development team I thought looked really good. So I don't think we have as

644
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,519
much to worry about as the raw
numbers are showing at the moment. All

645
00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:52,079
right, Well, that's a relief
that because we both have been fanned of

646
00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:59,320
him. Let's talk about the last
guy, Yatchislav bhutits b u t e

647
00:42:59,599 --> 00:43:04,519
y E twenty twenty sixth round pick
six y four, one hundred and eighty

648
00:43:04,519 --> 00:43:07,679
five pounds. He's primarily been in
the VHL over and RUSHURAT for the past

649
00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:12,159
two seasons, looking really good there. He went to the KHL for one

650
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,639
game and got blown up pretty badly, but we don't need to worry about

651
00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:20,280
that. We'll ignore that his hockey
prospecting has been steadily trending up to fifty

652
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,960
two percent chance of being an NHLer. He has a couple of comps archers

653
00:43:24,079 --> 00:43:28,840
Erbe who I was a huge fan
of way back in the day, Alexander

654
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,719
Georgiev. Obviously, people at a
little bit more familiar with these days.

655
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:37,360
Average starter is what he's listed at. So, Kat, what do your

656
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:42,519
instincts tell us about Boutiet. That's
a tough one. He doesn't necessarily play

657
00:43:42,639 --> 00:43:47,000
for one of the KHL's strongest teams, and he yeah, he got a

658
00:43:47,039 --> 00:43:51,400
little, a little blown up there
in that one game. I love seeing

659
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,920
the consistency of love seeing the consistency
of game starts. He played thirty five

660
00:43:57,039 --> 00:44:01,920
games for Chilibinsk in three and then
this past year he played another thirty five

661
00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:06,199
games, and we didn't really see
his numbers go down a ton with that.

662
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:09,079
I found a couple clips of him. He looks good. I'd love

663
00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:17,679
to see him play a few more
KHL games and show that one game was

664
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,239
an anomaly. But I think he's
more or less probably ready to come over

665
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:28,599
to North America. If they're planning
on, if they're planning on essentially bringing

666
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,079
him over, I think it's going
to be time soon. I just don't

667
00:44:32,119 --> 00:44:36,840
know necessarily where they would put him, just because they do have playing and

668
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,559
they do have suchanic and so I
think the Ducks are reaching that point.

669
00:44:40,639 --> 00:44:46,920
Where as crazy as it is to
say, I think they have too many

670
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,679
good prospects in their system and nowhere
really to put some of them. I

671
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,760
think if they can keep him over
in Russia for the moment and allow him

672
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:59,000
to play some games at the KHL
level. That's probably the best thing to

673
00:44:59,079 --> 00:45:00,679
do for right now. It'll just
be time to bring him over soon and

674
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:06,360
see what he can do all right. Last one, Damian Clara twenty twenty

675
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,760
three second round pick, definitely surprised
some pundits on Day two. I personally

676
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,119
had not heard of him. Six
foot six, two hundred and fourteen pounds.

677
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:19,559
He's Italian, best Italian goaltender since
Jianluca Paaliuca. Look him up if

678
00:45:19,559 --> 00:45:22,960
you don't know who that is.
He doesn't play hockey, though he spent

679
00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:27,119
some time in Austria and Sweden,
and his draft season Clara was with Fargistide

680
00:45:27,159 --> 00:45:30,000
BK the Jay twenty version and this
season he'll be on loan to brain Us

681
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:35,639
if of the hockey has funskin.
He played thirty four games, had two

682
00:45:35,639 --> 00:45:38,639
point two three gain nine thirteen save
percentage, four shutouts, twenty five and

683
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:44,679
eight record. Then he went ten
to one and eleven qualification games with a

684
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:49,320
one point six eight and nine to
thirty one save percentage as he helped Brinus

685
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,159
get qualified to the SHL again.
That was an insane run. His expected

686
00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:55,920
goal per goal conceded one point three
to five. Next season he's going to

687
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,800
get he's going to be back with
the main club Fargistade BK in the SAHL.

688
00:46:01,159 --> 00:46:05,679
His equivalency has bumped up to forty
five percent chance of being in an

689
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,719
NHL or there's a comp here of
Aiden Hill. I think maybe there's even

690
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:13,239
upside for more kat. What do
your instincts tell us about the best Italian

691
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:20,960
hockey goaltender, Damian Clara. I
love seeing number one goaltenders from non traditional

692
00:46:21,039 --> 00:46:25,440
markets, so whether that be somewhere
like Florida or Italy, I love to

693
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,880
see that. I'd love to see
him play at the SHL level this upcoming

694
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:35,400
year, just to see what happens
when he's essentially going to be on one

695
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,239
of the weaker teams at the SAHL
level just because they did get promoted backups.

696
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,639
So we'll see. I think what
I said with our our guy Bootites,

697
00:46:44,559 --> 00:46:46,159
we're reaching a point where I don't
know what Anaheim's going to do with

698
00:46:46,199 --> 00:46:50,360
all these guys, because if he
plays really well at the SAHL level,

699
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,400
you'd assume he's ready for North America
and I don't know where they would put

700
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:58,199
him. Love to see what he
can do against the SHL competition. He

701
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,519
came out of nowhere. For me. Yeah, I think we'll have to

702
00:47:00,599 --> 00:47:04,920
see. But at some point I
think they are going to have to make

703
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,639
some trades, which luckily for them, he needs some players. So I

704
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:13,920
think we may end up seeing some
of these prospects on another in another system

705
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,599
in the next year or two here, just because they have so many of

706
00:47:15,679 --> 00:47:20,199
them. But that's not a bad
problem to have. No, it's not.

707
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,079
Let's trade John Gibson. Let's move
some of these prospect goalies up kind

708
00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:27,079
to make it happen Anaheim. Thanks
so much, cav for giving me extans

709
00:47:27,119 --> 00:47:45,679
things on these Anaheim Duck goalies will
be back right after this dig The Dynasty

710
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:51,800
Dig in a nine Ducks edition.
The Ducks have a lot of extra picks

711
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,360
in this draft, and extra first, an extra second, two extra thirds.

712
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:58,480
Who cares about late picks. They
got rid of their fifth and their

713
00:47:58,559 --> 00:48:04,719
seventh, but the one they picked
number three overall in this excellent draft,

714
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:09,920
and they're already tied for tenth in
Victor's Prospect System ranks. That's going to

715
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:15,400
start out with the no brainer.
Victor. Who's the no brainer. It's

716
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:21,239
Cutter, Gotier and he is the
twenty twenty two to fifth overall pick by

717
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,079
the Flyers, six two hundred ninety
four pounds center, left wing. He

718
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:29,519
was traded from Philly to Anaheim for
Jamie Drysdale in that sort of a shocking

719
00:48:29,639 --> 00:48:32,480
trade, I think for some of
us. He just finished his second NCAA

720
00:48:32,679 --> 00:48:37,199
season where he was over a point
per game in both of them. His

721
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,639
first season, he had thirty seven
points in thirty two games. This season

722
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:45,679
sixty five points in forty one games. Very impressive overall in terms of his

723
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:52,679
performance. He was a Kobe Baker
finalist, and that stacked BC team somehow

724
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:57,639
lost to the Denver Pioneers in the
championship game. Before that, he led

725
00:48:57,679 --> 00:49:00,480
the Americans with twelve points in seven
games in route to the U twenty World

726
00:49:00,559 --> 00:49:06,239
Junior Championship gold medal. Looking at
some of his tracking data from Mitch Brown

727
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:10,280
in that tournament, he was outstanding
in most of the offensive and transition metrics.

728
00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:15,440
A lot of really good controlled entries
and exits. Transition success rate was

729
00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:22,079
really high, his primary expected assists
were extremely high, and he shoots a

730
00:49:22,119 --> 00:49:25,119
lot, although his expected goals were
a little bit lower. He has really

731
00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:30,599
good advantages created primary point involvement game
score, all that's pretty good. The

732
00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:35,559
one thing that's a little bit low
is his defensive metrics, his course he

733
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:39,760
and his ozone retrievals, so overall
looks really strong for Gotier. Looking at

734
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:45,199
his FHL player card, you can
see that overall his shots and hits are

735
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:50,280
really high per sixty, they're some
of the highest in the NCAA this season.

736
00:49:50,599 --> 00:49:53,519
His blocks are on the lower side, and overall his goal scoring is

737
00:49:53,599 --> 00:49:58,039
definitely really high, but his assists
are as well. So he's looking like

738
00:49:58,119 --> 00:50:00,920
a really strong points option and bad
looks like, but at least based on

739
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,480
the shots and hits, is going
to be really high. I have him

740
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,159
as an eight out of ten on
my scale, and looking at some of

741
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:13,239
his underlying metrics overall really good buck
battles, zone entries of course, see

742
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,599
all of these things look really strong. Even some of his defensive metrics in

743
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:22,239
terms of some of his dumps and
retrievals for checking breakouts look pretty strong.

744
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,320
But to learn a little bit more
about Cutter Gotier, we need to hear

745
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:30,719
from our FHL scout and Art's our
favorite Fahl Finn Yarno coming to talk to

746
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:37,800
us about Cutter Gotier today skating average
smooth skating for a big body, even

747
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:43,719
not top speed caliber footwork efficient and
powerful. Goate is able to quickly switch

748
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,239
on skating lanes and has great balance
with his skating, making him with the

749
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:52,599
ability to drive to the net even
when the opponent tries to interfere with them.

750
00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:57,360
He can also do quick deep moves
with his top speed skating to pass

751
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,440
by the opponents for a scoring chance. For passing above average, quick hands

752
00:51:00,599 --> 00:51:06,400
sees the ice well, distributes the
puck and transition situations to find the open

753
00:51:06,559 --> 00:51:12,880
area on offensive zone. He's always
dangerous as always posing a shooting threat,

754
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,360
so he can also find open teammates
for the pass instead, so he's more

755
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:22,039
of a dual threat in that sense. Shooting elite, very powerful and accurate

756
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:25,039
shot with a quick release. He's
always willing to use it, even from

757
00:51:25,119 --> 00:51:30,480
the tight areas. He should have
great shot volumes in fantasy hockey. Scores

758
00:51:30,519 --> 00:51:35,280
goals mostly at the front of the
goal or from both circles and the center,

759
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,920
not so much from the blue line. IQ above average playing calm hockey,

760
00:51:40,039 --> 00:51:45,559
not throwing panic passes. Great vision
in the offensive zone. It's clearly

761
00:51:45,679 --> 00:51:50,800
visible as he's finding himself on many
occasions in the goal scoring zones. His

762
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:55,280
heat map is strong all around the
offensive zone. That's a good sign for

763
00:51:55,519 --> 00:52:00,639
checking dangerous and for checking situations.
He's willing to use his body and strength

764
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:07,280
and gives some hits, but he
does not rush out defense. Gotier plays

765
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:13,880
a quite good all around game,
which he's not a special defensive player,

766
00:52:14,079 --> 00:52:17,159
but he can survive in defending situations. What helps him is his big size,

767
00:52:17,199 --> 00:52:22,719
with Gotier uses against opponents when battling
for the puck and uses his wide

768
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:27,639
reach which allows him to interrupt opponents
with the puck. He's had so far

769
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:32,119
some usage on shorthanded situations, but
Jarno also thinks he could be more of

770
00:52:32,159 --> 00:52:37,719
a regular on defensive situations. Also
on the pro level, best asset elite

771
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:43,320
shooting, magical ability to find open
slots at front of the net to score

772
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,679
goals. Biggest concern. He's got
a lot to prove on a pro level.

773
00:52:47,039 --> 00:52:51,000
After pailing out on the flyers,
Jarno says, how can he handle

774
00:52:51,039 --> 00:52:57,039
the pressure he himself set? Will
it be a question more than is his

775
00:52:57,159 --> 00:52:59,519
skill set? That will be more
of a question than his skill set.

776
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,800
The top tier outcome, top line
power, forward power play one goalscorer with

777
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:08,719
over a point per game an elite
bash woof and the reason why that could

778
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:13,679
come into play. He's got the
skills, he's got the size. What

779
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,639
if he gets up there with Leo
Carlson and the other Anaheim young guns fifty

780
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:22,840
percentile median outcome for go tier top
six players sixty to seventy points average bash.

781
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:29,320
Not getting the top line rolling Anaheim
would be what creates that if he

782
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:34,559
doesn't involve as a hitter, that
could hurt his bash stylistic comparable n is

783
00:53:34,599 --> 00:53:37,719
gonna go with J T. Miller
and our friend Mason Black, the NHL

784
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:45,760
Rankking woh set out the following poll
cutter Gotier versus Logan Stankoven. Boy,

785
00:53:45,079 --> 00:53:52,519
that's that's the big boys. Gotier
was not quite enough to overcome the great

786
00:53:52,679 --> 00:53:55,719
stank Oven at this point, who
won by a margin of sixty two to

787
00:53:57,159 --> 00:54:01,679
thirty eight. Victor, I can't
imagine you not getting stanky with this stankover

788
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:07,000
Gautier. Oh, you know me
too well. I definitely like both these

789
00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:13,840
players, but I'm going stanky.
I just love him and we've been lucky

790
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,400
to see him in the playoffs already
At the end of the season playoffs,

791
00:54:16,519 --> 00:54:22,480
he's gotten some run with the team
and he had Stankovin had an incredible AHL

792
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:27,559
season. Even though he played twenty
four NHL games, he had fifty seven

793
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,639
points in forty seven games in his
first professional season in the AHL. And

794
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,920
for those of you who are wondering
if he's still small, yeah, he's

795
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,840
still really small. He's still only
five foot eight. But he's also looking

796
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:44,280
strong for the Stars in their playoff
run. Six points in fourteen games may

797
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,440
not seem that exciting, but Dallas
is in the Western Conference finals, so

798
00:54:46,559 --> 00:54:51,480
these are high stakes, high impact
games, and he's still performing, you

799
00:54:51,519 --> 00:54:54,239
know, at a really high level. So I think Stankovin, especially if

800
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:59,119
you're looking at Tidy, I mean, he has some really he's gonna have

801
00:54:59,159 --> 00:55:01,480
a lot of takeo takeaways, that's
something, you know, He's like Mark

802
00:55:01,519 --> 00:55:05,280
Stone level in terms of takeaways,
which is really funny actually because he had

803
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,079
a couple of takeaways against Stone and
in the playoff series, which was pretty

804
00:55:08,119 --> 00:55:12,960
fun. But he's someone who's going
to have really strong play driving metrics,

805
00:55:13,079 --> 00:55:16,159
takeaways, those kinds of things.
And he doesn't hit as much as Gotier,

806
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,920
but he blocks a lot more and
his shots are also still really high.

807
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:22,400
This is for stank Covin, so
I think stank Coven's bash will be

808
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:27,440
similar and I think his points upside
is higher, So I would take stank

809
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,840
Covin. Honestly, you're going to
be happy with either of these guys.

810
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,760
And I will say that Gotier has
the opportunity to be higher in the lineup,

811
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,599
maybe than stank Covin, because Dallas
has so many good young forwards with

812
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:42,119
Johnston, and they have Maverick bour
Coming, and of course they have Jason

813
00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:45,199
Robertson and Rupe hints there might be
some limitation at the top. But if

814
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,519
you look at the Ducks, they
obviously have Ziegers, Terry and Carlson,

815
00:55:47,639 --> 00:55:52,320
so they have some other good young
forwards as well, so they might be

816
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:58,320
some similar blockage there. If you
look at the hockey prospecting between these two,

817
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,239
it's still a favor Goatee a little
bit. This season he bumped his

818
00:56:01,599 --> 00:56:06,519
star potential up to fifty one percent, steak Ovin was at thirty three and

819
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:12,880
the NHLer probably for both these is
like a lock. So the overall Gothier

820
00:56:14,199 --> 00:56:16,880
hockey prospecting, he looks like a
fair number of superstars. Some kind of

821
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:22,039
bus like Robbie Fabrie wouldn't be that
exciting. But he looks a fair amount

822
00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:25,599
like our Timmy Paneren, who's obviously
a superstar, so that would be pretty

823
00:56:25,599 --> 00:56:30,920
great. Looking at his j fresh
card, he's more like a fourteen percent

824
00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:32,920
chance of being a star and a
pretty much locked to be an NHL Earth

825
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,840
Anyways, all around, Gotier is
looking like he's going to be really good.

826
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,199
I wouldn't read too much into the
fact that I would prefer stank Covin

827
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:42,920
slightly, but I think both of
these guys you'd be happy with you there

828
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,800
on their team. Jesse, absolutely, you would stak Ovin. Yeah,

829
00:56:46,079 --> 00:56:50,320
he's already playing at a higher level. But Gotier, he's a coming.

830
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,440
He's just somebody that I used to
know. Victor. Who is our need

831
00:56:53,559 --> 00:56:59,400
to know prospect. Our need to
know is Owen Zeyweger. We already talked

832
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,679
a little bit about Zellweger in the
main part of the show. Because he

833
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:06,800
got some time with the Big Club. We want to dig into his numbers

834
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,119
a little bit more, and so
reminder that he was a twenty twenty one

835
00:57:10,119 --> 00:57:14,840
to thirty fourth overall pick. Slid
so far because he was small, and

836
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,320
he still is five foot nine,
one hundred and seventy four pounds. He

837
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,639
beefed up a little bit, but
still short. He was in the AHL

838
00:57:21,719 --> 00:57:23,400
for most of the season, thirty
seven points and forty four games for the

839
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:30,000
AHL San Diego Goals And for those
of you that listen to the Cat Silverman

840
00:57:30,159 --> 00:57:32,519
Talk, she talked quite a bit
about the Goals, who she's seen a

841
00:57:32,599 --> 00:57:37,159
lot in person, and how they're
a pretty disorganized and chaotic team. So

842
00:57:37,639 --> 00:57:40,400
the fact that Zelweger was able to
produce and that environment is pretty great.

843
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:45,679
He had twenty six NHL games with
nine points. Looking at his wrap him

844
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:50,239
chart on Evolving Hockey, most of
the metrics are pretty low, but these

845
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,440
are his first twenty six NHL games
and the Ducks are not We're not great.

846
00:57:53,519 --> 00:57:57,199
I don't think you can hold that
against him too much. Looking at

847
00:57:57,239 --> 00:57:59,960
his FHL player card, you can
see that the bash isn't going to be

848
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:01,440
so much. I mean, he
shoots a fair amount, and that's something

849
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:06,039
that Derek mentioned. Pretty shot happy, but doesn't really hit a lot and

850
00:58:06,119 --> 00:58:08,440
his blocks are below average, so
his bash might be a little bit lower

851
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:14,519
unless you're just focused on shots.
He does also not take too many penalties,

852
00:58:14,559 --> 00:58:16,679
which is a good thing for the
team. But he should be really

853
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:22,199
high in terms of his points and
as Derek mentioned, having some strong power

854
00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:25,480
play acumen is really good. So
that's something to look forward to. But

855
00:58:25,559 --> 00:58:30,760
let's hear a little bit more about
what makes Eelweger tick from our FATL scout

856
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:36,039
Yarno. Jarno says the skating is
elite, great speed, ability to do

857
00:58:36,239 --> 00:58:40,440
quick turns with skates. Managed to
have fast speed even on his backward skating,

858
00:58:40,599 --> 00:58:46,079
usually joining rush attacks almost like a
fourth forward. Can also move quickly

859
00:58:46,159 --> 00:58:51,599
through the blue line from left to
right or vice versa, or rush to

860
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,880
more forward toward goals for scoring chances. Passing elite, great stick handling.

861
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:00,960
He has the ability to pass the
puck. His rush attack and other movements

862
00:59:01,039 --> 00:59:07,519
are very active, usually creates chances
for passing and goal scoring chances. He

863
00:59:07,639 --> 00:59:12,079
will generate a lot of passes from
his shots, which will be valuable in

864
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,920
fantasy power play. He can work
as a powerplay quarterback because of his three

865
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,119
way threat movement, shooting and passing. In shooting, it's good, very

866
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:25,599
accurate shot. Good shot volumes over
three shots per game in the a can

867
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:30,639
use the shot either from the left
circle area when rushing toward the net,

868
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:36,840
or from the right hand side in
power play situations, and he will shoot

869
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,599
the puck is much from the blue
line, which can go either directly in

870
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:45,920
or cause rebound goal scoring chances.
The IQ is elite, especially in the

871
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,159
offensive zone, always on the move
looking for the next chance, adjusting his

872
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,679
position to be more dangerous if getting
the puck, able to move with the

873
00:59:53,760 --> 01:00:01,199
puck inside the offensive zone, reacts
quickly to changing situations without hate decisions for

874
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:07,000
checking. He's very active in defensive
situations, although he doesn't use his body

875
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,239
that much defense that's going to be
a question mark, Jarno says, will

876
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:15,079
use his stick very heavily on defensive
play. He's very active on the Rushdee

877
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:21,039
bets hugely to be able to get
the puck away, and if that doesn't

878
01:00:21,079 --> 01:00:23,519
happen, it can lead him to
be playing himself out of these situations.

879
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:30,000
It allows opponents to go through him. This also can lead to positive outcomes

880
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:34,119
when getting the puck away and then
he's able to transition quickly to the attack.

881
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:38,679
But in long defensive zone situations where
the opponent is dominating the game that's

882
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:43,800
not great for Zelweger, and the
puck battles in front of the net could

883
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:47,559
be hard for him. For larger
opponents, he should be paired with the

884
01:00:47,679 --> 01:00:52,519
good two way defenseman capable of moving
the puck. Jarno's thinking about a Devon

885
01:00:52,599 --> 01:00:59,440
tees with Cale mccarr. So the
best asset active play, which generates a

886
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:04,840
lot of offense chances. Biggest concern
that's going to be the same thing because

887
01:01:05,039 --> 01:01:10,400
his active play could lead to some
defensive backfires. The top outcome for Owin

888
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:15,559
Zelweger top attacking d on his team, powerplay one quarterback racks up points fifty

889
01:01:15,639 --> 01:01:21,239
plus points. When he gets adjusted
to the NHL on a good team with

890
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,480
supporting talent, he should be able
to be right there in the top ten

891
01:01:23,559 --> 01:01:30,320
and defensive scoring probably liked on bash
for us fantasy types, and that would

892
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:36,000
happen if his offensive talents are so
exceptional, they're so undeniable, it's hard

893
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,119
to see him not reaching them.
If you're coming out to a median outcome

894
01:01:39,239 --> 01:01:44,440
for Zellweger powerplay two guy, third
pairing usage and five on five, and

895
01:01:44,559 --> 01:01:47,840
that's if he can't get his defense
together to a point that he's not a

896
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:51,960
liability at that point, then you've
got to give him safe minutes, second

897
01:01:52,039 --> 01:01:57,559
power play usage, stylistic comparable Jarno
goes for Brian Brafolski. How about that?

898
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,519
And in terms of our comparrison,
again, we're going up against a

899
01:02:01,639 --> 01:02:06,000
big boy here. Mason Black's not
screwing around this week because he gave Olin

900
01:02:06,079 --> 01:02:13,199
Zelweger versus Luke Hughes and the poll
had another duck goes down in a landslide.

901
01:02:13,519 --> 01:02:17,280
Luke Hughes seventy five point five,
Olin Zelwegger twenty four point five.

902
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:22,760
Victor, is that where you're at
with this comparison? Yeah, definitely,

903
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:27,639
you're right. This is a really
difficult comparison because Hughes has already been in

904
01:02:27,719 --> 01:02:34,559
the NHL. He already looks fantastic
in his NHL time, and he's played

905
01:02:34,639 --> 01:02:37,800
a full season, been highly productive, and he's in a really good situation

906
01:02:38,119 --> 01:02:44,039
with the Devils, who underachieved this
season. But clearly he has some really

907
01:02:44,159 --> 01:02:47,760
high heights that he can reach.
Picking Hughes doesn't mean that Azelwegger is going

908
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:51,800
to be bad or anything like that. They both have really high potential.

909
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,199
In fact, in the PNHLE model
as a reference. They're both looking super

910
01:02:54,239 --> 01:02:58,840
strong, both looking like they could
be close to point per game guys.

911
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,960
I don't know that they'll quite reach
high, but certainly in that fifty sixty

912
01:03:01,119 --> 01:03:06,519
range of elite offensive defenceman, which
is really nice. Both these guys actually

913
01:03:06,679 --> 01:03:08,960
really young for their draft year too. They were both taken in twenty twenty

914
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:13,719
one, Hughes at four, Selweger
at thirty four, but both of them

915
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:20,280
are September birthdates September ten and September
nine. These are literally five and four

916
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:22,960
and six days away from being eligible
from the twenty twenty two drafts. So

917
01:03:23,039 --> 01:03:28,519
both these guys having a little bit
more development runway, and we're seeing the

918
01:03:28,559 --> 01:03:30,599
fruits of that now. It took
them a little bit longer to get there,

919
01:03:30,679 --> 01:03:35,079
but they're both fantastic. So yeah, both these guys are great.

920
01:03:35,119 --> 01:03:39,239
They both have basically our eighty nine
to ninety percent chance of being stars in

921
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:44,800
the Hockey prospecting model. They both
look incredible, Hughes slightly higher, but

922
01:03:45,119 --> 01:03:47,960
both great, And of course Hughes
does not have the size issues because he's

923
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:52,840
six foot two, so that helps
him a little bit. And the other

924
01:03:53,039 --> 01:03:58,159
comps for Zellweger there really aren't many, which is weird considering he's so high.

925
01:03:58,199 --> 01:04:00,760
But Darryl Siedor is the one that
would keep coming back to. And

926
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,880
he was also a whler who ended
up being more of kind of an average

927
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:09,760
producer, but had a really strong
WHL and a decent NHL production. Looking

928
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,840
at the j Fresh card, he
has a twenty five percent chance of being

929
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:15,719
a star, ninety four percent chance
of being NHL are one of the top

930
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,599
in this really high upside for Zellweger. I wouldn't shy away from the fact

931
01:04:18,639 --> 01:04:21,519
that he's still a little bit small. He's really dynamic, as you heard

932
01:04:21,599 --> 01:04:25,039
Derek mentioned, as you heard a
lot of our guests mentioned in the past,

933
01:04:25,079 --> 01:04:29,280
Elwger is a really good player,
and I don't think he's gonna it's

934
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:31,679
gonna bother him too much that he's
a little bit on the smaller side.

935
01:04:31,679 --> 01:04:36,199
He seems to do really well with
it. Jesse and lastly, Victor,

936
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:41,559
we've got our keep your eye on
prospect. Who is it? That's Tristan

937
01:04:41,639 --> 01:04:45,559
Leno and we already mentioned him a
little bit. Twenty twenty two second round

938
01:04:45,559 --> 01:04:47,880
pick six, two hundred and ninety
two pound right handed d only played thirteen

939
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:53,320
games I referenced previously missed the World
Junior Championship, had that staff infection,

940
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:57,639
had another injury early on, so
it's hard to glean a whole lot from

941
01:04:57,719 --> 01:05:00,679
his season. But looking at his
FHL player card, can see that he

942
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,800
actually hit a lot in the AHL, one of the highest for sixty in

943
01:05:04,239 --> 01:05:08,480
the league. His shots were a
little bit lower and his blocks were low.

944
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:11,960
There wasn't a whole lot else to
glean because he didn't score a lot

945
01:05:12,039 --> 01:05:14,800
in terms of his goals. He
had a decent number of assists. But

946
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:18,800
let's hear a little bit more about
Tristan Leno from our FHL scout, Yarno

947
01:05:19,039 --> 01:05:25,280
comes up with this on Tristan Leneau
skating smooth, quick feet, good balance,

948
01:05:25,719 --> 01:05:28,960
looks very easy for him. He's
got speed, so he can join

949
01:05:29,039 --> 01:05:32,239
the rush in transition or get the
puck to the opponent's zone with skating.

950
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:38,159
He can also change the position in
the offensive zone with the puck by his

951
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:43,480
skating. He's still more of a
puck distributor than a puck carrier a la

952
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,719
zelwigger passing. He's a puck distributor
in his own zone when starting attacks,

953
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:53,320
usually has the main responsibility to pass
out of his own zone to the center

954
01:05:53,559 --> 01:05:58,119
or the wing and junior. He
played more as the quarterback on the power

955
01:05:58,199 --> 01:06:00,039
play, but that probably will not
be a main role in the power of

956
01:06:00,119 --> 01:06:05,039
the pro level. On rush situations, his plays start and the offensive zone.

957
01:06:05,119 --> 01:06:09,400
Has the skills to find his own
players in free slots. Also,

958
01:06:09,639 --> 01:06:15,679
much of his scoring assists could be
secondary assists instead of primary assists. Observes

959
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:20,320
shooting doesn't look overly powerful. He
scores some goals from the blue line,

960
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:26,079
but mostly it's up close on the
circles or from the rush. Attacks can

961
01:06:26,199 --> 01:06:29,559
be used on the power play on
the left hand side as a shooter with

962
01:06:29,719 --> 01:06:33,400
his right hand shot. The heat
map especially is strong on the right to

963
01:06:33,639 --> 01:06:39,039
his center area. IQ plays with
calm, nerves, no panic in his

964
01:06:39,159 --> 01:06:44,920
play. Good IQ to read the
play on the right position attacking or defending

965
01:06:45,559 --> 01:06:49,920
defense calm and quiet. Defensive play
stays between the opponent and his own goal

966
01:06:50,679 --> 01:06:55,039
in his zone. Usually parks to
the front of the net, active to

967
01:06:55,119 --> 01:06:59,880
defend opponents, sticks uses his body
well for his advantage in puck battles.

968
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:02,880
Is not looking for the big hits
that could make him lose his position.

969
01:07:03,159 --> 01:07:09,199
Yarna would like to see him laying
together in defensive pair with some more dynamic

970
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:15,320
offensive defender like Zelweger, as with
Luneau still having to have good enough puck

971
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,119
skills. It would make them compliment
each other very well, and Luno should

972
01:07:18,119 --> 01:07:24,079
be a regular in the penalty kill. Best asset is the all around play

973
01:07:24,239 --> 01:07:29,800
looks easily translatable to the pro level, doesn't have clear weaknesses, and could

974
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:34,679
be trusted with both offense and defense. And the biggest concern maybe not a

975
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:42,119
special elite level talent which would raise
him above which would raise him above normal

976
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:47,679
NHL players and probably caps his fantasy
value at some point. Top tier would

977
01:07:47,679 --> 01:07:53,159
be a top four all around defender
twenty plus minutes a night special situations,

978
01:07:53,239 --> 01:07:58,119
could be one of the first defenders
on shorthand perhaps getting some power Play two

979
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:02,360
usage, but his points mostly coming
from five on five point scoring limited thirty

980
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:08,079
to forty points with medium bash.
That is what his skill set is.

981
01:08:08,199 --> 01:08:12,880
A great all around play, but
not a great fantasy points role. Fiftieth

982
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:16,680
percentile outcome. Yarnold kind of thinks
that the top outcome is very similar to

983
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:23,840
the median outcome here. Basically,
he would be a more defensive situations maybe

984
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,920
not as much power play usage,
and then he's more like a twenty five

985
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:32,119
to thirty point player. The stylistic
comparable is Jake Sanderson. That's what Yarno

986
01:08:32,199 --> 01:08:38,800
would say, and our friend Mason
Black, the NHL Rankking give gives a

987
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:42,159
little bit of easier time to Luno
than he did the first two. Jeremy

988
01:08:42,239 --> 01:08:46,119
Poitier the Calgary Flames is the competition
this time, and Luna comes out ahead

989
01:08:46,159 --> 01:08:49,680
of Poitier fifty eight to forty two. Victor, you agree with that,

990
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:55,960
I do, And I just wrote
about Poye for EP ring Side, so

991
01:08:56,239 --> 01:08:58,800
that'd be a good thing to check
out. He did have a really strong

992
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:03,800
HL season and has had a couple
there. But I think one thing that

993
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:10,279
you could just do with this comparison
is just ask yourself who do I trust

994
01:09:10,359 --> 01:09:13,920
more to draft defenseman? And the
easy answer is the Anaheim Ducks. They

995
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:17,680
are very good at this. They
always find really good players, and Luno

996
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:23,119
is definitely in that camp. I
think that even though he had a lost

997
01:09:23,159 --> 01:09:26,439
season, really but he was really
good in his spurts and he's been really

998
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,000
good in the queue, and I
think him just doing a little bit at

999
01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:32,159
HL and NHL level this season proves
it he can hang and I think he

1000
01:09:32,239 --> 01:09:38,319
can develop even further, so I
think I like him. Quarrier has definitely

1001
01:09:38,359 --> 01:09:41,359
come a long way since his draft, and he was really good in his

1002
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:47,279
He was really offensively talented in his
QMJ. Chell time, but he struggled

1003
01:09:47,319 --> 01:09:50,479
defensively and he's really rounded that out. So I think he's someone that's a

1004
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:54,279
lot more interest than I thought he
would be at this stage of his career,

1005
01:09:54,359 --> 01:09:57,680
and he's been really strong in the
AHL. But I would definitely take

1006
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,920
you know, the only consideration here
is that the Ducks have so many good

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defensemen, as we just talked about, so the Flames do not. So

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if you want like the top end
of a lower field, then maybe you

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go with Pria just for that.
Looking at the hockey prospecting between these two,

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it's it's definitely Luno. He had
sixteen percent. He's currently at sixteen

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01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:21,720
percent chance of being a star,
sixty two percent chance of being an NHL

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or I'm fairly certain he will be
an NHLer. Paria has trended down since

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his junior time to just four percent
chance of being a star, but he

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has had really strong HL production and
I think that's worth a lot of consideration,

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and him being a June birth date, it was, it's a little

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bit more reasonable that he's doing what
he's doing in the AHL at his age,

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so I like that. Looking at
some comps for Luno, I think

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01:10:47,359 --> 01:10:51,560
Josh Morrissey is a reasonable one who's
been a really strong producer. Of course,

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01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:56,520
him getting powerplay opportunity is going to
be important. He may or may

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01:10:56,600 --> 01:11:00,600
not get that at the time that
he's ready with Zellweger and Minschikov ahead of

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01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:04,199
him. Looking at the j freshcard, just two percent chance of being a

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star for Luno, so a little
bit lower thirty six percent chance of being

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an NHL are a little bit more
pessimistic, but overall, shrist and Luno

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01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:15,720
another great defenseman for the Anaheim Ducks, and that's going to do it for

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our Anaheim Ducks. Dig. If
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