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take a break right now. We're gonna come back and talk about the Anaheim
Ducks. Pleased to be joined today by Lisa Dillman of the Orange County Registered
Southern California News Group to talk Annaheim Ducks. Lisa, how are you doing
today? Well, I'm just great. Thanks thanks for having me on it's
a pleasure down there in SoCal. But but as I understand it, you
have a history deep into hockey, way way into north and cold places before
you even got down there. Right, Yeah, I've sort of lost my
Midwestern cred. You know when I when I dropped below sixty degrees zo,
it's cold. But I grew up. I grew up in Minnesota. My
late father worked for the Minnesota North Stars, and as I was mentioned to
you before, where he got started. He was a third employee, hired
in nineteen sixty seven. So yeah, I went to games as a kid,
and you know I was, I was in high school. I'm dating
myself here. I was in high school the first time they made this Cup
final and lost to the North lost to the Islanders. So you know,
all these like high school celebrations were going on, and I was sneaking outside
to find a TV set to see how they were doing. Yeah. I
grew up in northern Iowa, so they were the closest team. So Darnell's
Dallas people stealing our team. Can you know, I'm still slightly bitter about
that. I have to an I go to I go to the I go
to games in Dallas. I see a couple of the jerseys hanging and the
rafters. I'm like, wait a minute, this is just wrong, and
I should still live Minnesota. But but you know, I sort of feel
like I'm happy the Wilds there and they've been such a big hit and that
hockey is back back in Minnesota. So that that was, you know,
it's been a long time they've been back, of course, but it's I
you know, I sort of I have an affinity for in the Wild organization
as well. Absolutely, well, let's let's get right to these Anaheim Ducks.
It had to be a rough season in Anaheim, coming in with a
World Juniors famous Mason McTavish and NHL video game coverboy Trevor Zegris among other exciting
young players, and we'll kind of cover those one by one, but also
a bumper crop of prospects coming out. Anaheim cratered to the fewest standing points
in the NHL, second fewest goals for, most goals against, allowed,
the most shots in the league at thirty two oh seven. It was a
gap from their thirty two oh seven allowed. The second most allowed was twenty
nine oh four. The gap between Columbus at twenty nine oh four and the
eleventh team was the same distance as the gap between Anaheim and the second place
team. So it was really bad. I don't really even need to go
on Dallas Sequms was fired. I'll just ask you, Lisa. Obviously this
rebuilding team some promising things, but what had managements makeup last season? What's
your outlook just generally speaking for next year? Well, you know, I'm
not a Pollyanna person, but I could not have envisioned things turning going off
the rails as much as they did. I mean, if you flash back
to opening night, they played the crack and we're behind and rallied this exciting
you know, come from behind victory everything. Hey, okay, this is
a team that is going to give up a lot of goals, but they're
going to score a lot of goals. Well, the first happened, but
the second didn't. Um, and they promptly went on a road trip where
they where they got off to a horrible start, you know, just got
crushed on the road and it seemed like they were behind the eight ball from
the start. So um, I mean, it's easy to sort of look
at hindsight and say, okay, this is this is what could happen if
to a team if you trade Hampus, Lindholme, Josh Manson, Ricard rickel
and and Nick Dorrie in terms of the toughness quotiented And Okay, of course
this was going to happen, but you know that that's hindsight again. Um,
but I think even the optimistic, well, I don't think anybody could
have predicted you'd be as legendarily bad as it was. And the other side
of the next shoe to drop is, Okay, how much better will they
be next year? And I think you know, they can't possibly be as
bad as they were this past season. I don't think that will happen.
But I think it's I think fans are sort of going to have to sort
of sit back and even be more patient maybe than they already thought they were
going to have to be. Well, starting to get into the forwards here,
the one of the guys who's going to have to bounce back next year,
right, not bounce back, but a guy that will count on to
have good performance will be Troy Terry. In the preseason Victor and I kind
of saw him is a little more than a little past the one hundred best
fantasy forward. He ended up about in that range, but the big breakthrough
the preceding year. I will say this, I think I expected that Troy
Terry last year was going to regress more than he actually did. He did
fine. Actually. The twenty five year old right wing ended the year with
twenty three goals thirty eight assists for sixty one points and seventy games. He
didn't keep up that nineteen point three shooting from the year before, but he
made up for it with a few more shots a better assist rate than an
extra minute on ice per game. He missed a handful of games from an
upper body injury, a few more for a personal matter, so we only
got into seventy. But he on the ice at five on five kept the
team average offensively. When he was off the ice, they went from average
to according to the Mica and Blake McCurdy stats, twenty one percent below average.
So his contract was a huge value. His defense has not necessarily grated
out. Well, what do you make of Troy Terry coming into next year?
Is this going to be what we expect, like a seventy point type
Terry or what did you make of this season? I don't think so many
points is out of the question. And you mentioned the shooting percentage, you
know, the nineteen point three from two seasons ago and dropping to twelve point
two, and I think that the nineteen point three was sort of the outlier
and maybe maybe this seasons what we'll be expecting going forward. He missed,
he missed, you know, twelve games, like you said, the injury
right after the All Star first game, after the All Star break, and
then um, some issues with this with his wife expecting their first child,
which which they had last week. Actually, so I I think he was
he was one of those one of those players that that in a in a
season of negativity, Um, you know, held his held held his zone
certainly. And I think, you know, I guess if we were doing
the show after the draft, um we would we would know a little bit
more. But I think, you know, adding an extra piece like Adam
Vantilly, perhaps will will greatly enhance his value. And I think he's you
know, I think he's has a tremendous upsign. Yeah, Vantillity is going
to be a huge ad and we all kind of assume he's going to be
there, so we can kind of think about him contributing to the these forwards
values. And the next guy we want to talk about is Trevor Zegris.
I had him ranked as sixty five in the preseason, Jesse said one hundred
and six, and he ended up one hundred and fourth, and we're kind
of split. Next year, I have Tier one, he has Tier two.
Last two seasons, Zegris has hovered in the sixties in terms of point
pace, and you know, I think most of us and most of us
underlying metrics like shooting percentage. Pdoipp suggested his pace was fair for this season,
So I don't know that he necessarily was due more, but I do
think that many of us feel like he has another gear that he could access
and maybe get closer to that, you know, seventy plus point per game
pace. Lisa, do you think Zegris can can get there? Yeah?
I think so. I think so, And even again at a piece like
Fantilly that's going to help help the power play, you know, as you
guys know, the power play, the power plus been a bit of a
yo. Yo. It's like a few seasons ago historically worst you know,
jump back to fourteenth two seasons ago and thirty first out of thirty two this
past season. His goal production did drop on the power play, I believe,
from nine to four. Um. So I think, I mean,
you know that that has that has to go up. That just has to
go up. And I think, you know, with more assets, I
mean, even with players around him like the Vertanos, the Stroms, will
have a full season to feel more comfortable, you know, in the system.
And you could see those guys trending up really even in the second half
of the season as a guy a little more comfortable. But I think I
think also too, it's going to depend on like who the new coaches and
how they can get to Zeegers and sort of say, okay, you know,
you know, focus on what you do well and forget all this extracurricular
stuff that's going on. It kind of detracts from your game. And if
they can sort of improve that incrementally, you know, he's going to be
a much stronger player all around and a better fantasy buy. Rookie Centerman and
John snow Doppelgang or Mason McTavish is our next guy. He had forty three
points in eighty games fifteen plus minutes. Really, I don't know what it
was I think my expectations were just too big. The hype was so big
coming into the season, and maybe I'm disappointed. Maybe I shouldn't be.
His advanced numbers don't look good, but really they're pretty much in line with
the team, which just didn't look good. It's not like he was an
outlier that was pulling things down. He was a rookie. It is what
he was. But he's also third on the team in power play tim on
ice and second in power play points. So he had himself a very decent
season given the context. Is he still on track Mason McTavish to be a
top six centerman. Maybe he'll move to a winner if there's an elite center
we're talking about coming in. Did the team see progress in his game?
Maybe a sixty point type guy next year with an improved team around him.
What do you think, Lisa, I guess he maybe close to sixty.
I think he stays in the middle. And it's really interesting. Usually,
usually players like some of these young guys, you know, they give them
time to adjust and put them on the wing. Well, this is a
guy, this is a guy. It was really uncanny who struggled, I
thought, and seemed seemed really not out of place in the wing, but
just couldn't find his game. And once Dalseykins moved him to the middle fairly
early in the season, his game, his game took off and it was
like, I'm like wow, it was an exact opposite of what I thought
would happen. So I think I think they almost have to keep him in
the middle. Um, he was you know, obviously, and he was
the Calder My Calder ballot, he I had him my top three. I
think I had him third. Um. I think a lot of people would
probably had him five or six, depending on how much they saw him.
But I think I think in a season full of disappointment and negativity, he
was a bright spot. And missus a kid who not only acts older,
he looks older. I mean he does not look his he does not look
that young. And he stays in the ice and just has this work ethic
that that I think both botes well for the future. And I can see
the point to point total trending up. And you know that one timer from
a circle, the kid, the kid's already a weapon. The kid works
on it constantly after practice, before practice, they have to have to drag
him off the ice, so um, you know, I I think they're
they're upside And what you said a minute ago, I think we all kind
of expected a lot because I spend a lot of the time of the summer
in Canada and I'm watching the you know, the World Juniors and he's you
know, mister Canada, and you're thinking, Okay, it's gonna come in
and set the world on fire. But you know, like you pointed out,
he was also you know, on a team that that's struggled for sure
in terms of the other forwards. It kind of gets a little bit rougher
there. And I'm wondering comments Underny of these guys that wondered if any of
them could get to like a fifty point pace, Frank Petrano who has his
good times, Dylan Strom who's had his ups and downs, Maximum Comtois who
seems to have kind of disappeared after being a really promising prospect slash rookie.
Any of those guys you think is going to be a breakout of some sort
this year. Lisa, Well, I think there's actually one player that we
haven't spoken about, and he's a sneaky, sneaky late pick would be Adam
Henriek and and he's going into the final year of his contract. I think
he probably he probably would have been moved at the deadline if he hadn't been
hurt. He had a knee injury that kept him out for quite some time.
I think he you know, you need with all these kids coming in,
you need an adult in the room, and he is that. UM
I think I think he's a tremendous asset and and I would sort of keep
him in the back of my mind, especially for the later rounds and fantasy
drafts. Um you mentioned for Toronto, we all know the man likes to
shoot, shoot the puck, shoot the puck, and shoot the puck some
more. There's there's no ambiguity about his game. Um. And like I
said, I think I think VA Toronto and Strom. I think as as
a season, I think as season number two, I think will be better
than that that first season of adjustment. Um you mentioned Comptoi, Um,
I'm not sure he'll be around next season. General Andrew patrick Beek has been
He's made the tough decisions and he makes pretty quick decisions. I mean they
walked away from Sam Steele and Sonny Mulatto who you know who had better seasons
in their last season with the Ducks than Comptoi had this past season. I
mean, he had some injuries, but I think I think among the among
the disappointments, he's he's one of one of many for sure, well on
defense, a guy who why he wasn't a disappointment. Cam Fowler, Victor
and I kind of saw him as maybe Victor thought he maybe be the sixty
eighth best defenseman as we do it like our ranks, I said eighty third.
He was the eleventh best defenseman in fantasy and Victor and I are a
little bit higher as a result for next year. But in his thirteenth year
in Anaheim, he produced career high in minutes and points. Forty eight points
in a full eighty two games was spectacular and bash that his blocks, plush
shots plus hits was the number five among all defensemen. Only Zegris had more
power play points on the team and more power play time on ice. Easily
led the team in minutes and while the team didn't exactly thrive with him on
the ice, Okay, look, just do the math. If you're the
player who played the most on the team and the team played really bad all
the time. You know, it's not like you could say that he blew
up the league when he's on the ice, but he had somewhat anonymous departners
every time he was out there. Basically, who knows how much worse the
team would have been without Cam Fowler, a real pro. He still has
three more years at six point three million per How did the team see Fowler's
year? And do you think he's going to hold this prominent offensive role with
so many young defenseman on the way, Lisa, I think he will at
the very least for this upcoming season. And you're right. I mean you
talk about his deep partner as he finished the season, and no disrespect to
Scott Harrington, but I don't think anybody, if anybody of us had that
on our Bingo card at the start of the start of the season in October.
And you know, Harrington was actually a very good, serviceable, solid
defenseman, which they were. They needed more of that. So I think,
you know, Jamie Drysdale will probably talk about him in a second,
but you know, limited to you know, missed missed almost the whole season
because of shoulder surgery. Probably could have played at the end of last season,
but they didn't want to rush him and risk anything happening after such a
long rehab. But Foller circling back to Cam Fowler, if you think about
it, he didn't start the season on the first power play unit because you
know, they had the John Klenberg experiment which blew up in everybody's face and
that was spectacularly bad. So I believe Cam had two assists in the first
nineteen games this season, so like to finish the way he did was was
really nothing short of incredible. Well, another defenseman that stuck out this team
Kevin Shattenkirk. Victor and I were actually a little bit higher on Schattenkirk than
we were on Fowler comming into the year, and Shattenkirk did really well.
Fiftieth Best Fantasy Defenseman, Thirty four year old Deman had a solid third year
in at him his thirteenth year in the NHL, twenty seven points in seventy
five games. Now he was down two minutes per game despite the depleted roster
around him. His time did seem to have ticked back up after Klingberg left,
as you said, and the bad news is his contract will be up,
so I don't know, as this team is really looking on rebuilding a
retool lane. This is a veteran news probably going to cost a little bit
of money at least maybe not what he once would have. But is he
going to come back? And if he does, where do you think he
will fall into the depth chart? Lisa, Well, that's a good question,
and I wish I had the answer to it. I probably would have.
I'll have in a few weeks, but I think, you know,
it's it's it's it's a it's a tougher one for them to sort of analyze
because they have so many kids coming up, but they don't want to rush
them. So you know, if he if he were to come back on
a team friendly contract, that would be something that they could really consider.
They need. As I spoke about Henry being an adult in the room,
Shatton Kirk is one of those individuals too. They need that that that person's
going to be a stitting influence the room, but that's going to come out
and talk to the media when everybody else is shell shocked. I mean,
he's actually you know, I could see him actually being in the broadcast Booth's
team eventually or some broadcast Booth. But in terms of the on ice play,
I don't to bring him back. I don't think it would be you
know, out of the realm of possibility. Well, you already reference him,
Jamie Drysdale. He is the next guy that we're going to talk about.
I had some I had some high hopes that he could have a step
forward. I ranked him seventy seven Jesse one hundred and forty one. Turns
out if you add those together, probably closer to where he was two hundred
and forty third. Of course, as you mentioned, that's because he missed
almost the entire season with the injury and had had surgery. And I'm sure,
as as you mentioned, he was well enough that he could have played.
But why why do that? So we have another season now that we're
going into, where I think there's high hopes and potentially expectations. I don't
think that Drysdale has really, you know, taken that step and realize his
full potential of what he could be. Do you think that he could do
that next year? What should we kind of expect from Jamie Drysdale in twenty
twenty three, twenty four. You know, I wouldn't go into the season
with overly high expectations for him because you know, like, look how young
he is and at that position. I mean, he played only eight games
last season. He lost basically a full season at this point. At this
point, I think he should have you know, when you when you lose
how much time at that age, I mean, there's a lot lot of
ground to make up, make up four and and to think that he's going
to go from like, you know, jump from like one to fifty miles
per hour, you know, you know what I mean, if he's going
to make that big quantum leap, I don't think that's going to happen.
And that's a you know, that's a that's a difficult position, especially with
the team team around him, to sort of expect expect like a huge breakout
season. Um. Yeah, they're going to need to bring in, uh,
you know, hopefully'll bring a coach that's like experienced at working with a
young defenseman, because that's really that's really one of the futures of this team.
Yeah, for sure, we're gonna talk about some of the other prospects
in a different part of this show, but I just want to ask you
because you know, he is Jamie Dryzel is so young and still has so
much potential. But we also know that there are a lot of great prospects
on this team, none the least of which are olanzel Wegger, pavolman Chukov
and Tristan Lenau, all defensemen, all great, all pretty fantastic in my
opinion. Do you think that Jamie Dryzel is the is the one who is
likely to be the power play quarterback? Not next year, but let's say
maybe the year after the year after that. He is still several years ahead
of all those guys, so he has that on him. But do you
think that that's in his future? Well, that's I wish I my crystal
ball here. I think, like two or three, four years down the
road, I think it's going to be Zellwegger. I mean, based on
everything we've heard. Um. You know, sometimes it's hard because you get
swept away by the prospect type. We've all fallen prey to that. Um.
But he that that's the way if I were to like Pere in the
future, That's that's what I think will happen. Um. You know,
as followers sort of wind down, I mean, I don't know, I
think I haven't seen you know, I only covered the Ducks this past season
on a day to day basis. I didn't see enough of Jamie the previous
season to really chart where he where he might end up being. And I
guess it's just again, it's very, very difficult to project what that you
know, power play component could be to his game without having having seen it
much on display. Oh yeah, that's that's very fair, And it's a
harder workers really Definitely the guy that to circle way down the road here.
Yeah, And I didn't want to lead you, but I think it's Zlwegger
personally. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is too like what I really
like when I'm hearing, you know, internally and and and the messaging from
the from the organization even earlier in the years, they're they're going to be
patient. And I think they've looked around, and everybody's looked around and seeing
the mistake of rushing prospects and and putting pushing too much too soon and and
having it having a backfire. Yeah, there's not a lot of benefit to
that for sure. So let's move on to the goalies. The Ducks were
dead last this season and expected goals against per sixty. Defensive structure was a
struggle. They also unsurprisingly led in the most number of actual goals per game,
and they had a few goalies, it was mostly John Gibson. They
had Stolarz and Dostall play a few as well. Only Dostell was able to
have a save percentage over a nine hundred. The Gibson and stolars were both
at eight ninety nine, so they were close, and if all of them,
Dostall had the best goal save above expected, he had three point two
in the games that he had, which was nineteen and Stolars was actually second
with two point five three goals save above expected. And Gibson was not able
to be on the positive side of the ledger with negative point five seven goal
save above expected, but his was fifty three games, much larger sample size.
Stolar's a UFA, Dostell as an RFA, and Gibson has four more
years at six point four. Of course, there have been rumors of him
being moved out, but with his play like this and his long contract,
it seems kind of unlikely. So Lisa, I'm just going to pose them
all to you as as one big question. What do you think of the
goalies as Stolar's back and how do you see the games played going between Dostal
Gibson and what can we expect from them. Well, I guess it depends
on if if they do, you know, if they do move on from
Gibson and move them out, and whether they get a goalie back and return.
Um. You know, if that does not happen, if he moves
out, they don't get a goalie back, then I can see them keeping
stolars. Um. He had, he had, he had, he was
out with it. He was out for a lot of part of the season,
which actually ended up getting dalstal Moore starts. UM. I talked to
him, he said his rehab was going well. Um, it seemed to
be it seemed to be on track. Um. I think I think it's
going to be very difficult to sort of make make a hockey deal to move
that contract out. UM. I asked after at the end of the season,
after the final game, I asked Gibson in the room about how you
know, he asked a very open and a question about his future and and
he did say something to the effect like, hey, it's too too early,
to too soon to talk about it. Um, but I'm sure there's
a lot of um, you know, thinking he's doing about his future and
where he where he wants to be, and and and and knowing that this
rebuild is going to take take probably even longer than people thought. I think,
you know, you have to sort of take all those factors into the
equation of what you want to do next with your career. Um. So
I think it's just I guess it's like a domino effected. First, you
have they have to figure out what he wants to do, what they want
to do with him, what they can get back in return. And unlike
most people, I still think I still think very highly of him. I
think he has a tremendous subside. He's he has at Jonathan quick uh in
his prime snarl, you know, ultra ultra competitive and can drag the rest
of the guys into the fight along with him. So um, I think
I think, on on a team that isn't as porous as this team,
I still think he's a tremendous goaling. Let me just ask you a quick
follow up on Dochetalla because he's one of my very favorite young goalies to track,
and it's been hard to watch him on this team because they give up
a lot of chances and He's a goalie that I think could really thrive in
a in a strong defensive structure, which is not what I not how I
would describe the Ducks this season. So wondering if you got any sense from
him and this year covering him and what you think his top end potential could
be. Yeah, I think I really think highly of him, and I
think we saw glimpses of what that top end potential could be. And when
he when he won back to back games in Montreal and Edmonton. I mean
the Edmonton game was probably one of the like, yeah it was. It
was actually in Edmonton and he just was look under siege the entire night and
to walk away with a win in that setting against you know, Connor Leon
and company was was nothing short of incredible. So I think if you wanted
to circle a high point in his season, it would be that um and
and and it's like again like it's it's very difficult to sort of evaluate him
on what was going on around him, because you know, you just you
start to when you have that defense in front of you, you start to
cheat and then like I don't care who you are, but nobody nobody was
looking really nobody was clipping those highlights to show on their video resume at the
end of the season, for sure. Yeah. I saw Lucas Dostal once
this year up close. It was with the San Diego goals against the Milwaukee
Admirals, who did not quite ice Connor McDavid and Leon Dreyside lat night,
but he still looked pretty amazing. So, Lisa, thank you for all
this insight on the Anaheim Ducks. Where can people follow your work? Follow
you out there on Twitter and generally just keep up with all your great Ducks
content. Well, thanks for this, and I really app shape chatting and
yeah, a couple of places on Twitter. It's sort of a ridiculous handle,
but it's real Lisa, as opposed to all the fake Lisa's out there
running around. There are so many. Yeah, and I have a lot
of fun with it. I have a lot of fun with it. And
my paper's website is oc Register dot com. I think that's probably the quickest
place to to get to our coverage. And uh and I don't think I'm
on Facebook much anymore, so well to stignore that. All right, Thank
you, Lisa, and good luck covering them Ducks again next year. Okay,
thank you very much. Hope to do it again, Wilson. That's
good fired. Oh my goodness, walk without chat quick grab. Now it's
your weekly goalie talk with Kats Silberman. Cat's instincts. All right, So
now we're welcome again Kat Silverman from ingolmag to give us her Cat's instincts on
the Anaheim prospect system. We are going to start with my favorite prospect goalie,
and that is Lucas Dostal. He twenty eighteen, third round picked by
Anaheim, six foot one. I love that he's a little bit smaller,
but so technically sound, doesn't make a lot of extra movements that are needed.
But why why am I telling you about the goalie we want to hear
from Katu. He's also twenty two twenty three this summer. Looking at hockey
prospecting, He's basically a coin flip right now to be a NHL goalie.
Got some pretty good comps, guys like elvistomers lookings, although that maybe doesn't
look as good this year, but some other ones like Ben Bishop and Darcy
Kemper that look pretty strong. And I love that he got into some games.
He was able to play nineteen games for the Ducks, and he had
the best goal save above expected of any Duck goalie, way more than John
Gibson, and he bested Stoley the goalie by about one expected goal. So
I heaped some praise on Dostell. How much more would you like to add
on top of that, kat, I could talk about Lucas Dostall all base,
So don't don't give me that kind of opening up. I love him,
he's I know I've I've said at times of Dustin Wolf, I think
is the top prospect in net across the NHL. I think Lucas Dostall's on
up there with him. There's kind of like a little trio of I guess
not trio. There's there's like a small little group of probably four or five
goaltenders that are in the AHL right now that I think are going to be
our next. In the early to mid two thousands, we had like the
goaltending giants. We had Corey Crawford and Kerry Price and Henrik Lundquist and Ben
Bishop and Jonathan Quick, and I think we the guys that are going to
be filling that role are all in the HL right now, which is why
we've seen such lossly percentages in the NHL, and I'll stand by that,
But now I Lucas Dostall is one of those goaltenders who I think did just
an incredible job of transitioning from league to league. You know, you see,
you saw him. He played in the Czech Republic, he looked pretty
good, ended up moving to ills Tempere in Liga in Finland, put up
incredible numbers for them, ended up essentially becoming their their star starter. Moved
his way over to North America and so far has been incredible at the North
American level too. He's looked consistent, which the Ducks are. When we
talk about those rebuilding teams, the Ducks have not been consistent. We've seen
some of their goaltenders kind of suffer for it. John Gibson being our primary
victim there in all, looks like he's just it looks like he's aware of
his game, Like he knows his strengths. He knows that he's really good
at his positioning, he knows that he's really good at tracking the pock.
He knows his weaknesses, he knows that, you know, he's not a
super adept stick handler. I don't really see him as a guy who is
essentially leading the breakout pass there, and he just he plays his game consistently
and confidently, and he doesn't get goaded into making huge costly mistakes. Like
he managed to play on the Ducks this year and ended up with four wins
and three overtime losses, which honestly, for the Ducks this year, that's
like half their wins. So that's that's huge for a guy who really was
supposed to be just developing at the HL level right now. I think that
the Ducks will be best served in a tandem because he does have a other
top goaltender right alongside him. They're like the anti San Jose. The San
Jose Sharks have one of the worst goaltending prospect pools in the league. I
think the Ducks have one of the best, um but I think he's like
I would be floored if he didn't end up a mainstay starting NHL goaltender.
Me too. He is. He is incredible and yeah, definitely the anti
San Jose in every way, with not one but two stellar options. And
that next guy is the next guy we're going to talk about, Kellie Clang.
He's gotten a fair amount of airtime on this show. To twenty twenty
third round pick by Pittsburgh. I remember we even said at the time,
and I know you said it before on the show, that we thought from
the very beginning they drafted you know, two goalies, him and Joel bloom
Quist in that draft, and we thought one of them would move while I
was Clang. He came in the Raquel trade. Um Clang is six two,
so not huge, but he is solid, and he had another strong
season in the SHL for roguelib BK and then he actually came over and played
five games for the San Diego Goals of the HLU. Only won one game,
but nine or four say percentage two point six five GA not bad.
His hockey prospecting looks like a straight linear ascension from twenty five to thirty five
to forty nine to sixty six percent chance of being an NHLA. That's the
kind of progression you want to see guys like Um. There's there's a there's
a few really good comps with him. The guy he actually looks the most
like is a former Penguin great Mark Andre Fleury. Um. We'll see if
he has that kind of career. But that was about Kellie Klang. Um,
I love him. I thought that when we were talking about that that
twenty nineteen goaltending class class just being one of the strongest I'd seen in years.
Um, there were so many teams that could have used really good guys
from that class, and it seems like the Penguins draft at all of them,
which served them well. They managed to get a quality trade out of
Clang. Um. I think he looks a little bit more fluid than Dostal.
I think that Dosol is a little bit more of a structured goaltender,
so that that flurry comparison. Honestly, I think it's from a technical perspective,
he's not as aggressive, but it's like looking at a Braden Hobie versus
a Marc andre Fleury, where you see Holpbie hit a lot of those marks
a little bit more, just a more controlled start and stop to its game.
That's Dostal. Clang is known more for just that, that fluid movement
from post to post in his crease, very very common for Swedish goaltenders.
But I do think that he can get a little creative at times too.
I remember watching some of his I ate up his film when he was when
he was getting ready to get drafted because I wanted to see which goaltender I
thought was the best from that class, and it was really hard to tell.
Um. I remember thinking that he had this element of surprise to his
game where he wasn't afraid to get just a little a little spicy. Sometimes
he'd get a little aggressive, and how he'd challenge pucks, and how he'd
essentially recover from a rebound, how he would sort of get into the mix
with things that that kept him from being too predictable, because sometimes that really
fluid just sort of like they're lulling you to sleep. The side to side
movement is some of the Swedish goaltenders can become a little predictable, and it
can be it can be almost exploited by some of some of the sharper shooters
in the league. And I think that Klan does a good job of keeping
people on their toes a little more. That's that's the one two punch I
want to see. I think Anaheim is well set in the future essentially to
have almost like a a Bruins level tandem there of having Klang and Dostall trading
back and forth, to see essentially split those starts over the next however many
years. I think that he's a to me, another almost guaranteed NHLer Um,
and that's that's wonderful to see. I think that it's a little unfair
that the Ducks had John Gibson, wasted him and then are primed to essentially
move right into another era of really solid goaltending. But that's that's good drafting
for you, and that's good trading. Yeah, hopefully they don't waste those
stalin Klang. But the state of their prospects school, the state of their
pool outside of the goalies is also strong, so you would think that it's
all gonna it's all gonna turn up roses for them. And but the last
guy we want to talk about gage Alexander twenty twenty one, fifth round pick
six six, two h five. So unlike the previous two Stalwarts, he's
he's huge um relatively young still. Um plays for the WHL or played for
the WHL Swift current Broncos this past season, but also got into if a
number of HL games a similar number actually, and then also six ECHL games,
which is never a great sign, I don't think. But his hockey
prospecting has him kind of hovering at the thirty four percent mark. He actually
looks a fair amount like Joel Hoefer in this model, not stylistically but in
terms of percent wise. So, Kat, can we gauge your level of
interest of Alexander H. That's oh man, it's I don't want to I
don't want to bash him because I think on any other team he'd be a
fine wait and see goaltender. But it's almost comical looking at him next to
because I think both Claig and Dosaal look like if they needed to, they
could put them right into an NHL game. And I mean we saw it
from Dosal. I think they could do it with Claim too, and he
would be just fine. I got to watch gage Alexander H. We actually
live just ten or fifteen minutes from the San Diego Goals Arena, and so
we were able to go to some of their games, and I got to
watch him playing the Palm Springs team, the team the the HL team for
the Seattle Kraken Valley, yep, the Coachella Valley. That's it um and
oh boy. He's not not to say that he's not a pro goaltender.
It's just he's an entire level below Dostalin Clang, Like, I think if
he's there is their depth, which I think teams need that I think they
it's a smart idea to have goaltenders at really every level that essentially you can
you can fill in the gaps. But just the the puck awareness. His
movement was fine, his tracking was okay, but just the the overall game
awareness and situational awareness and recovery from certain shots was it just wasn't the same.
And I was kind of bummed that I had gone a couple of weeks
ago hoping to see Lucas Dostall when we bought tickets and he was, I
believe with the NHL club. When when we were there and so we got
Gauge Alexander and I it was it was apparent that this was for sure like
an HL goaltender for them, which they need. But he he is an
HL goaltender, and that is the only thing I have to say about him.
He seems really nice that he is an HL goaltender. Well, you
ran out of nice things to say with Dostall and Clang, so what are
you going to do? You ran out of nice things to say. That's
all. You can say so, Gauge, you are ahl goalie. But
the Ducks have a great system. Thanks for giving us your instincts on them.
We'll be back right after this. Dig the dynasty, Dig the Duck
Dynasty, Dig Duck Dynasty. Oh no, Victor, we are going to
talk Anaheim Ducks here. The Anaheim Ducks did some work. They're in the
tank. That means they've got a couple of extra second rounders and an extra
third rounder. Love having some of those high picks in this draft. And
the Victor Nuno patented Fantasy Hockey Life team ranking, if you add up their
top prospects, is third in the NHL. Very good stuff for these Ducks.
And I think, I know this is another one of those teams where
there's no mystery. Who your no brainer is going to be? Victor?
Who is your no brainer? Oland Zellwegger. He's so exciting we couldn't contain
ourselves from talking about him on the main part of the episode. And yeah,
as this a little sneak preview, all of our guys, all of
our main three for Anaheim are defenseman and they but they also have some good
forwards and goalies. So interesting. If you want to hear the team review
with the top ten. You can listen to that as a patron. But
let's talk about Olan Zellweger. I think some people forget that olanz Wegger was
just five days away from being eligible in twenty twenty two, and I think
if we did that draft he would go number one. At least he should
in my opinion. He's still just nineteen, and he absolutely tore up the
WHL. His Kamloops Blazers gave the Juggernauts Seattle Thunderbirds the best test they've had
so far. No one else has even been able to win a game against
them in the playoffs, and they won two against them, so that was
pretty great. Zellwegger put up fifty two points in thirty two regular season game
games for Kamloops and another twenty nine and fourteen playoff games, two points per
game in the playoffs. The defenseman is pretty nutty. He led Canada to
the U twenty World Championship gold in twenty twenty three, and if you look
at Mitch Brown's tracking data for the WHL and Olins l Wegger he rounds out
at one hundred percent one hundred percentile in just about every category. In fact,
it would be more efficient to list to all the categories and where he
is not three standard deviations above the mean and one hundred percentile, so those
would be slot past success rate, control entry relative, controlled exit relative,
and retrieval success an entry prevention. Those are pretty much the only four out
of about twenty categories where he is not ridiculously above the mean, and even
in those he is well above average. He is just insane, really really
good offensively shoots a ton, creates a lot of spectacles on assists, excellent
in transition, excellent in zone coverage and overall impact on the game, and
very underrated defensively. More on that later, but for a little bit more
on what makes Ollenzelweger so special, let's hear from our FHL scout Brandon on
Ollenszelwegger skating, hypermobile, mini gears and styles at his disposal. Puck handling,
high degree of connectivity with stride and body positioning allows for this access of
the access to move the puck through the pass or shot at will efficient markmaker
as he doesn't waste time with flash for the sake of flash shot quick release
that is not telegraphed to the rest of his movement. Both one timers and
one touch shots are crisp IQ, incredibly intelligent, often a few steps ahead
of everyone else, very patient when carrying the puck, cool under pressure,
willing to make unorthodox plays to keep the river flowing in the right direction.
Defense, competent, and slightly physical. Best tool in his strong is his
strong, consistent poke check, and his is backed up by his fortified skating
and while executing the poke check disruptive to pass a tense I should also mention
that I reached out to our good buddy Joel Henderson about zell Wegger's defense because
you hear some people every now and then question that, and I asked him,
I think that Owen zelle Wegger's defense is underrated. He seems actually pretty
good to me, and Joel said, yeah, he's very good defensively,
so that is not at all a concern, and he's pretty underrated in that
category. Back to Brandon report, biggest asset is a toss up between his
skating and his IQ. The biggest concern is the defensive responsibility. But again
what Joel said, Listen to Joel. He's smart, top tier, potential,
elite, all situation, play driver that has a potential to push a
perennial point per game play shot totals could be in the higher echelons of the
NHL on a season to season basis. Marginal hits, fewer blocks, takeaways,
and intercepted passes ought to come out on the high end of those stats
are counted in your league. Which one league that I have him in does
count that? Yeah? Most likely Tier might take some time for the goals
to come in the pros through though intelligence ought to allow assistant to translate quickly.
Ten goals, thirty assists, forty points seems pretty reasonable expectation. Stylist
a comparable rare style. It feels lazy, Brandon says to compare him to
Quinn Hughes, and when watching him, he says he feels more like a
forward than he does as a defenseman. Maybe something closer to like Mark Savard
or Marten Saint louis pretty high praise Thank you Brandon for that report. So,
in terms of the rank King comps, we have Ullin Zellwegger versus Simon
Edvonson. Zellwegger had a one hundred and five p NHL based on his fifty
two points to thirty two games for the Kamloops Blazers. Edmondson sixty five,
still good, but maybe not quite as good twenty seven points in fifty two
games for the hl Grant Rapid Griffins. And when you look at his pan
actually tracking score, you see that Owen Zellwegger for the past three years has
been on the superstar potential line. And that's what you want to see.
You want to see people actually keep up this super high potential throughout the years.
If they just kind of get there once, it's maybe not as impressive.
And the other thing is that they have a similarity score there for the
for the piano, Chilly and his top three similar players are Dougie Hamilton very
good outcome and Thomas Harley who is still developing but kind of having a great
playoff and I think more of a feather in the cap of Thomas Harley and
then Tyler Myers, who certainly had a good good year a couple of years
here and there. And looking at hockey prospecting between Zellwegger and Edvanson, it
does not look similar at all. Zellwegger looks like an absolute star and see
what Evanson looks like a good prospect, but not on the same echelon.
If I'm looking for a more equivalent comp of Ollen Zelwegger, I like bow
and Byrom, and Byrom was also a WHL guy. If you look at
the WHL equivalency days, then Olan Zelwegger is higher in every year that they
were in the WHL together except the D minus one year, and then Byrom
jump right to the NHL, which obviously Zelwegger has not. But he's still
he's still really young, as I mentioned, so he hasn't even had the
opportunity to play in the HL yet. Looking at the Twitter pool that Mason
Black NHL ranking put out on Twitter, it's it's pretty clearly zel Olanzelwegger sixty
three percent to thirty seven percent. Is that how you would fall on this.
Yeah, let's just take a moment to once again bask in the fact
that Bowen Byram isn't even twenty two yet. But yeah, if you were
going to try to make a argument for Edmondson, what you would say is
he has gone through the crucible and is in the NHL. Now he's proven
that he can do that from some adjustment. But I think everything you said
about owen Zoewegger is true. He is just blowing everybody out of the water.
And maybe it is in the WHL, but I think ultimately it's almost
hard to imagine. I mean, when you're competent to bone Byron, Bone
Byron is literally the most valuable Dynasty defenseman that we have right now. The
track that owen Zoewegger is on is special, it's all star, it's you
know, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but it's hard to
imagine Edmondson or really any other defensive prospect exceeding where we have Owen Zellwegger right
now. So yeah, I think it's a slam dunk victor. I agree.
And for those of us in banger leagues where you might think, oh,
but Evanson hits him blocks so much, which is true. He does
right out to look like he's going to be a bashed machine, and there
our arguments about how much his offense is going to translate. I know,
when we had Mitch Brown on, he said he thought he's the best offensive
defenseman in Detroit, higher than Cider and some of the other guys they have,
and that may be true, but he is not in the same conversation
as Owen Zellwegger. So if you think about just how high those points can
be for Zellwegger, even in the league that tracks all those stats, I
still would rather have Owen Zeewegger. There's I can't think of a league where
I would want Zellweger. I would want Evanson over Zellwegger. Maybe if I
had to have a Swedish defenseman, then I guess I would take Edvanson.
That would be the only caveat I could think of. Jesse. Moving on,
Victor, who is your need to know prospect? You need to know
Tristan Luna, That's who you need to know. Luneau was Anaheim's fifty third
overall pick in twenty twenty two six foot one, one hundred seventy four pound
right handed D and he was awesome forgotten oh this season, eighty three points
in sixty five games after just forty three points and sixtieth three games during his
draft season. Great stuff for a right handed D. And he really is
someone who's popped off this year, So you really love to see that as
a as a D plus one guy, and he's someone who I can tell
you has absolutely get it. Up my spreadsheet, so that's something that you
know, we track two on the sheet. He actually went up I think
the most of anyone that I can see right now. He went up four
hundred and forty five spots all the way up to number nineteen. And his
bash does right out as an excellent. He does have which should be excellent
number of shots, blocks and hits should be good, if not excellent.
So all of these look really really good for Tristan Luna. And we don't
have a scouting report for this scout didn't get it in on time unfortunately,
but we do have some more information that we can share on Luneau, and
we have our calm from NHL rank King Kristin no versus Logan Mayu and so
may you. Some of you remember a controversial pick by Montreal thirty first overall
back in twenty twenty one, and he had a paile of forty eight playing
for the London Knights. This year, he had a similar PNHD the previous
year. Tristan Luno in his draft season had a pacially of forty six and
this season seventy five. So he's someone who's gone from kind of second line
potential two looks like a first liner, and so that is really nice and
kinda bordering on the elite or superstar type potential. So that's pretty exciting.
And the PNH LEA similarity scores for Luna look like, well, the top
one is Mike Green, which would be really good. The next one is
Andre Benois not as exciting, Nathan Bellu not as exciting. So one out
of three, Well, if you're if you're bad in three thirty, then
you're you're a Baseball Hall of Famer, right, So I guess, I
guess there's that Tristan Luno in the Hockey Prospecting Model has a fifteen up to
twenty one percent chance of being a star and seventy percent chance of being an
NHLer. May you still looks like just three percent chance of being a star
and thirty percent chance of being an NHLAR so not as exciting. If you
look at Luno's trajectory with Mike Green and it looks exactly the same right now,
so we can hope for that outcome, I guess. And in the
Twitter poll it was relatively close, fifty seven percent for Luno forty three percent
for Mayu. What say you, Jesse Well, the thing with Luno,
of course is the Q factor. He's blowing it up, but he's doing
it in the q MJHL eighty three points in sixty five games, so there's
always kind of an asterisk that people are going to throw on that, but
the production numbers do shine through. He is a You're younger than Mayu,
so you've got that going for him. I don't know, I you know,
I don't The whole controversy thing. Might U is an interesting wrinkle to
throw into any kind of an exercise like this, But between the translations that
I see coming in on the hockey prospecting model and everything here, he's not
a guy who I'm as familiar with certainly. But even in this crowded system
coming up, whereas Montreal I think is really, aside from one massive exception,
a little less crowded maybe in the defensive area than Anaheim. Almost nobody
has more crowded defenseman pipeline coming up to the pros than Anaheim. I guess
I'm gonna still take Tristan Lenau here, Victor, how about you? Yeah?
Definitely to me, it's not even really close. I would take Luneau
and a heartbeat and not even really that close. I know that there's some
extracurricular things, shall we say, related to Meyu, and frankly, that's
reason enough to not want to take him. But I think, just based
on play, you could even exclude all that stuff. And if you say,
well, I don't care about that stuff, I just want the best
fantasy asset, I still think it's Leno by not a slim margin. Frankly,
so I would I would sleep easier taking Luno, and I would also
be more confident that he's the better fantasy asset. And the weird thing with
Mayu, and again not to get tied down on him, because this is
a Leno segment, But the thing with him is I think there is a
number of people who don't like him because of the extracurricular and then there's a
backlash who I think, who are some people who think, oh, I'm
gonna support him because people are being unfair to him or canceling him or whatever.
And then you also have the Montreal fan base versus the Anaheim fan base
you're dealing with here. So yeah, I was surprised to see the vote
only fifty six point seven to forty three point three I think there are a
lot of nun hockey things that are playing into this debate, So uh,
let's move on more or oh, go ahead, Victor, one more guy
to talk about. It's to keep your eye on prospect. Who is it?
Tavil Minschukov twenty two tenth overall pick was really awesome for the Saganaw Spirit
this year in the OHL fifty four points and thirty seven OHL games. After
that he was traded to the Ottawa sixty sevens. He had a bit of
a different role there, so his points were a little little muted, but
still over a point per game. Thirty four points in thirty two games really
not bad for a defenseman. He's six foot one nine two pounds, so
pretty decent size, maybe slightly small ish, but really pretty pretty much fine.
Mitch Brown has a tracking date on him and has it separated out or
combined depending on how you want to look at it between Saginaw and Ottawa,
and they're both awesome. It's really not much different other than it's pretty clear
that when he moved to Ottawa they asked him to shoot less, which he
did quite a bit less than he did in Ottawa, even though I mean
in saganaw even though he's not the biggest shooter to begin with. But one
thing you also see is that he played a much better defensive game. His
transition game greatly improved, his defense overall greatly improved. A lot of his
other metrics really stood out in Ottawa that weren't really bad, but we're just
like pretty good and then turned into really good when he was in Ottawa.
His best asset, though, is his expected goals for sixty and his creating
high danger shots and pass assists. For more on what makes Mitschukoff so special,
let's hear from our FHL Scott scout Brandon Skating. Very fluid mobile skater,
plays a heads up game, can easily shift gears to join the rush,
puck handling shifty puck handling through the neutral zone, quite skilled in close
stripping of the puck from opponents or keeping the puck away from pressure shot.
He has a deceptive release that relies on finesse and act aka the Cerkachev sifters.
Has the ability to add add more of a slapshot to his game in
the right moment. IQ for Minschikov is very high. Ability to read the
flow of the play and see open teammates. Even in times where it looks
as though there might not be a pass option. He can make effortless no
look passes, especially on the power play as he is leading the rush of
the neutral zone, uses his anticipation to get in passing lanes, and excels
in his spatial awareness to thwart or prevent plays. Defense plays a spatial zone
game where his edges and stick placement are doing a lot of the work.
Looks to pick off pass attempts. Best asset vision anticipation that is expressed through
both his activation and ozone and his passing across the two hundred feet of ice.
Biggest concern maybe a tad too aggressive at times in activating, relies on
teammates to cover for him. Kurd serve more to be physically engaging, relies
on space and time instead of taking away via pressure and threat of physical contact.
Top tier potential, first line top power play, dangerous throat on the
PK power play defender and power play specialist. Higher end on the shop potential,
lower potential on prifts like hits and blocks. Most likely tier first unit
power play or sorry second pairing with first unit powerplay defense first systems and scenarios
may not be favorable for deployment. If that is what is happening in the
NHL silistic comparable, a puck focused mix of Latang and Nurse with the physical
edge of gosh de Spair. Okay, thank you, Brandon. That's a
really fun player to imagine lat Nurse in the physicality of Gosha's player. Looking
at the NHL Rankking comps we have thanks Mason Black for tweeting these out.
Minschikov versus Jordan Spence and so Spence is someone that I don't even know if
we're going to be able to talk about with the LA episode because they have
so many good prospects as well. But just to mention Minschikov for sad as
I mentioned Pinachially ninety one, Ottawa sixty seven's Pinachial sixty six, so both
really good in Jordan Spence was in the HL this season, putting up forty
four points in fifty five games, which is super impressive. And we did
see Spence a little bit last year. He played twenty four games with the
Kings. This season just six, and that's mainly because last year they had
so many injuries. This year they had more healthy defenseman, so they didn't
need him as much. But his game hasn't really quite translated to the NHL,
but he has been awesome in the AHL. Has Spence looking at Minschikov,
his Pinachilli has tracked to be more like a first line type potential,
although he's kind of between first line and superstar right now. He looks really
awesome. We'll have to see another year of data to see how that translates
for Menschikov. And he is going to be twenty by November twenty first,
so he certainly could play in the HL, so we'll have to see if
he does that or whether he's still in junior the pole or sorry, one
more thing. The skater similarities for Minschikov happened to be two other Anaheim Duck
prospects, and the first one is Shay Theodore. Well, that would be
a super awesome outcome. Another one is Cam Fowler, less awesome, and
the least awesome is Kyle Foot So those three are all his most similar comments.
Based on p NHL e the Pole went decidedly towards Minchukov eighty four percent
to sixteen percent, so pretty clearly people like Minchukof better than Jordan Spence,
Jesse, what say you? I don't quite know about this comparison. I
don't particularly feel like it's close. I'm not quite sure what Jordan Spence is
doing here. I think Minschikov is a far better prospect. I mean,
I think we're getting closer to knowing what Spence is. He's a twenty two
year old who hasn't been able to stick in the NHL yet and doesn't seem
to be the guy is going to come out on top. Now. Minschikov's
gotta even more crowded situation on the blue line coming into Anaheim than Spence does
in LA. But I think it's got to be a pretty easy Minchikof here,
don't the picture? Yeah, I think in fantasy you have to like
Minchikov. Although some of the things that were brought up, like the fact
that he is very aggressive and pinching and some of his defensive play and lack
of physicality, some coaches are certainly not gonna like that. So I could
see Minchikov having a little bit more trouble translating his game to the professional ranks.
And Jordan Spence is clearly a professional hockey player. He's awesome in the
HL, He's played NHL games, He's looked good in NHL games. Part
of the problem is that the Duck the Kings just have too many good defensemens.
So if you want a higher, safer floor, you could take Jordan
Spence, but I would definitely for the upside here take Pablo Minchukov. No
question that I would rather have him on my fantasy team, but I think
some people might be underrating Jordan Spence, and if you could get him for
very cheap or little, not necessarily compared to Minchukov, but I think that
that would be a really good, a really good gut if you could and
Jesse. There's a lot more guys talk about on the Sandheim Ducks team,
but there's no time. This is when you're definitely gonna want to listen to
on my top ten recap for the Patrons. And I should also mention that
we have a one note with all these scouting reports, and there's often way
more detail than I'm able to read on each of these guys, so a
lot of these have game reports and extra content that you can see in there.
So definitely, if you're interested, look at Patreon, dot com,
slash Fantasy Hockey Life, and if you're interested in doing some scouting with us,
then you can also reach out via Twitter, DM, Discord, or
email us for meds. Victor, Well, let's take break, comeback,
close out this show back to close out the Anaheim Ducks has been a good
talk, Victor. But I want to remind people of some things, some
things they need to know. One of them is they should go play on
fan tracks. Fan Tracks is the website where you can play all your fantasy
sports. There's at least ten of them in there. Who knows. They're
always sneaking in and out, mostly in, and you can play more and
more every day. It seems like you can start your fantasy hockey leagues right
now for next year if you're going to set up a dynasty, which is
probably what you're doing, if you're thinking about this in May or whenever you're
listening to this. It is kind of the only place to play it because
you can do all the draft picks you want, the incredible deep player pool.
You can even contact them and identify more players if you think they're missing
from the player pool. There's all sorts of things you can do as far
as setting conditional waiver bids, there's a nice chat feature. There is an
app. Don't listen to those rumors. There's an app, and hundreds and
hundreds of different scoring settings. We did a league change in our rule the
other day and the tidy where instead of pims counting against players, we decided
from now on, if you get a gameless conduct and you get all those
minutes against you, that's a little rough in terms of really killing your team.
When we had the negative score, so we did just minor penalties.
You can do that fantracks. You can set the setting to just have minor
penalties. So people wanted it, Hey, we did it. Fantrack's HQ
lots of fantasy content there, articles on fantasy hockey, all the other fantasy
sports. There's some baseball podcasts there that you should be checking out. A
new prospect podcast, a new baseball podcast. We're also, in addition to
being part of the Fantracks podcast network, we're part of the Dauber Hockey podcast
network and Dabber Prospects, the place where Victor does his writing. Victor What's
going on at Prospects. Lots of great stuff over there, Diabat Prospects.
We wrote up all the organizational ranks, all the differences between the different editors.
We all had some good insights there. So definitely check that out and
we I'll be contributing to the Diabat Prospects Guide, which is coming out in
June first, I believe is the release date. So definitely pick that up
as everyone should know that is the bible of fantasy prospect reporting and I'll proud
to say I can contribute to that this year. So I got the Detroit
Red Wings, guys, and I got some other lists that I'll be able
to contribute to as the as one of the editors, well, very good.
And I would say, Victor, you also have a podcast over there
that is that true? Is that just a rumor? It's not a rumor,
It's true. Dabat Prospects Report is what Peter and I have transformed the
Dabat Prospects radio podcasts into and we do different content over there on prospects only,
so guys that I haven't really broke into the NHL yet, and so
definitely check that out. A lot of great stuff going. We're going to
be going through all the different teams. But just the prospects and just a
few of the guys highlight them, kind of deeper dives into them. We'll
also be doing some draft content and taking a look at some of the standout
players from the World Championships because there's some really good prospects over there playing right
now, so check it out Dauber Prospects Report. I also have a second
podcast. It's called Dynasty Sports Light. We talk about Dynasty fantasy baseball,
football, basketball, and multi sport leagues. We're starting a multi sport four
sport league including hockey, and that's going to be good times coming up this
summer. You can listen to Dynasty Sports Life everywhere you listened to this.
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