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this is insane. Yeah, it isn't say how they black you out like
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if you if you're into that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, it's
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Very good, It's time to get wild. Right after this, we
liked to well, welcome to the show, Dylan Loucks of the Hockey News.
We're ready to talk to some Minnesota Wild. How you doing today,
Dylan, I'm pretty good. How about yourself? Good? We're warmed up.
We're ready to go. We can talk some Minnesota Wild today from the
land of ten Thousand Lakes, Dylan. The Wild had a pretty nice year.
It looked a lot like the prior to like sixty some percent points percentage
first round playoff loss. The fans at the Axcel Energy Center saw fewer of
those flashing red lights because the goals really dropped. Fifth highest in the NHL
three hundred and five the year before last year twenty third place two hundred and
thirty nine goals. On the other hand, they got better defensively thirty fewer
goals against from two forty nine down to two nineteen, and that came from
perhaps a surprising climb from seventeenth highest say percentage to the third best in the
NHL. For those entertained by the fifth to cups, the Wild saw the
second most major penalties four and against. Is this team stuck in this zone
one of sort of first round playoff exit or is there a way that they
could climb here from cup to cup contention? Yeah, I think like you
said. A year before one of their best seasons in franchise history. They
had over one hundred points fifty odd some wins, and then last year they
had another great year. They lost Fiala, who provided a big spark for
them at over eighty points. It was a thirty goal scorer, helped their
secondary scoring, and then they replaced them with just like depth around on every
line, there was at least a couple of guys who could put the puck
in the net on each line. They got better goaltending. But if you
look at the Central Division this year, like the Stars got better, in
my eyes, the Coyotes got better. You can even say their Predators or
the Jets did so, It's hard to think. With the Wild not doing
much, they only brought in pat marooned and lost all their guys that they
acquired at the deadline last year, it's hard for me to think that they
can be that good again. They'll probably finish third or fourth in the central
round there, so they'll probably make it into the playoffs, But in terms
of getting past getting over the hump, getting past that first round things like
that, it's hard for me to see it happen that way. Unless they're
getting a ton of contributions from some of their younger guys that they're probably expecting
to make that jump. But in terms of going all the way or the
conference final, I guess it. I don't think they're there yet. If
they do get there, it will likely be due to the contributions of Carrill
capriz Off, superstar NHL player. On March eighth, the big thing happened.
Logan Stanley climbed on the back of Krill the Thrill and squished him into
the ice. He did very involuntary splits and missed fifteen games. Basically.
The rest of the regular season came back for the playoffs, but was a
very quiet, not quite himself. He only scored one goal, Noah says,
in a six game series loss. It's objectively unreasonable for me to be
disappointed by a guy who scored forty goals and seventy five points last year in
sixty seven regular season contests, with close to four shots and a hit.
But it was such a big step back from that one hundred and eight point
season the year before. Caill played two more minutes a night last year than
the year before. He's the start of the team, one of the most
exciting players in the league, and I being too harsh to say last year
didn't live up to Caprizov's standard. And do you think his game could hit
a higher level this year? Yeah, I definitely think so. Like last
year, it seemed like he was on pace to be a fifty goal scorer
and duplicate that one hundred point season he put up before, and then he
got hurt. That big Stanley injury kind of put him out for a while,
and even in the playoffs he was back, but he wasn't necessarily healthy.
You saw that he scored the opening goal in Game one and then was
just dry the rest of the playoffs. That is due to kind of him
still playing through that injury. But in my eyes, if he can stay
fully healthy this year, play around that seventy five game mark, seventy six,
seventy seven, whatever it is, I definitely think he can be that
fifty goal score, one hundred point guy because he was tracking like that last
year, and obviously he was one hundred point guy the year before that,
so I feel like it would be easy for me to say that he could
definitely hit that mark. If he stays healthy, that would be probably the
biggest question mark. Well, if he does, Mont Zucarello will be there
by his side. The thirty six year old Norwegian just keeps on going.
In fact, last year's twenty twelve average time on ice marked a career high
for Zucarillo. He notched twenty two goals, forty five assists, sixty seven
points, and seventy eight games two and a half shots per game, as
well second place in team scoring. He was also second on the team in
power play time on ice. He and Caprizof remained locked at the hip out
on the ice, and they were centered by a succession of guys including Freddie
Goodreau, Sam Steele, and then Ryan Hartman. Hidden under the hood,
some of Zuch's advanced stats slipped a bit last year. If you look at
a catch all like evolving Hockey's expected standings point above replacement, it was still
positive, but it was the lowest of his career and a big drop from
that magical season before. Is the team counting on Zucarello to keep up the
pace that he did two years ago or even last year, or do you
think the cracks are starting to show? What do you think we'll see from
Zukarrella this year? I think a little of both. Like last year,
obviously he was pretty good, and then it seemed when Caprizaf got hurt,
he wasn't really the same. And then in the playoffs, I think Zucarello,
even though he had a lot of points and he led the team in
that category in the postseason, I don't think he had the best playoffs and
I think towards the end of the season you could see a little bit of
regression. Being thirty six right now, I don't think it's hard to say
that he probably will take a dip in points this year. I don't necessarily
think he's a seventy point guy anymore, I guess probably the fifty point range,
sixty point range. I think he could still put up fifty points,
especially if he's playing with capriz Off, because we've seen that before, ever
since Carrill came to Minnesota, that Sucarella and him have had this instant connection
where they can find each other at any given point, and we've seen how
effective that can be in terms of both of them putting up points. So
it's definitely fair to say that he can still reach that fifty point mark if
he stays relatively healthy. But I do think there will be some kind of
regression from him this year. Although he is in the final year of his
contract, that could help him boost some confidence things like that, wanting to
put up more points just because he is in that final year of his contract,
But they'll probably be a little bit of regression for him. And let's
talk about Matt Boldy, one of my personal favorites. Boldy, it may
have seemed like a bit of a step back this past season. He went
from a sixty eight to sixty four point pace, but if you look under
the hood a little, he had worst offensive zone starts, more time on
ice a little bit more defensive responsibility, and his luck metrics went down a
little bit. His PDO and shooting percentage were a little bit lower than previously,
but he's still had thirty one goals, thirty two assists, and decent
number of hits, blocks and shots. He was sixty fourth at his position
for BASH seven years left at seven million. I think that contract is going
to age very well, so for those of us in cap leagues, it
may hurt a little in the first year or two, but it's gonna be
good after that. And the rest of his underlyings looked really good too.
Is this very strong all around player and Dylan, I feel like there's another
step potentially coming for Boldy here. Do you like him for more than a
seventy point pace moving forward? Yeah, I definitely think so. I feel
like last year when Caprizof went out with an injury, Boldy was the guy
that they needed to rely on, and it made sense. Boldy struggled though
to start the season, and he struggled a little bit years prior. I
know he came in but only played like the remaining forties games of the season,
But once he found his connection that was with Fialla but this year it
seemed once they acquired Marcus Johansson, that line took off. It was Johansson,
Boldy and Eck and it was like the last nineteen games of the regular
season, Bold he had fifteen goals and he finished the season with a hair
over thirty. So if you look at it like that, he was really
hot in terms of finishing the season, which makes me believe that he can
carry that into next season. He's definitely probably gonna hit that thirty goal mark
again, obviously if he stays healthy. But like you said, I do
see him as a guy that has potential to put up those seventy points and
definitely he can get a bunch of those on the power Play. New power
play coach this year, so maybe that helps him as well. But he
will probably get some more time with capriz Off every now and then, which
obviously will spike his points up too. So seventy points for BOLDI probably in
the horizon, and yeah, it could happen next year well. Joel Ericson
Eck already mentioned he's going into his third year of a very respectable eight by
five and a quarter million dollar contract, technically the first contract signed by Bill
Garrant. In his term in Minnesota, he achieved a new personal high and
scoring last year sixty one points and seventy eight games. He was a power
play one player, third on the team, and power play time on ice
just over three shots a game, just under two hits a game, And
for the third straight year he got Silky votes and was third on the team
in Evolving Hockey standing points above replacement. That nice catch all stat. I
thought of je as primarily a defensive stalwart and a shutdown guy, but sixty
one points is he also developing an offensive role and couldn't go any further for
him doing Yeah, I think he is started starting to develop that offensive role.
We saw a little book bit of it two years ago, and especially
in the playoffs against Vegas a while back, he had that clutched gene,
so to speak. But yeah, last year, a twenty three goal season.
He gets majority of his goals on the powerplay. Obviously he's a big,
strong defensive center, but he plays. He sticks right in front of
the net on power plays, plays a little bit of a bumper, redirects
pucks, things like that. In terms of this season, I wouldn't be
surprised if I had a twenty five goal season around sixty points. But he's
still gonna play that fantastic defensive style. Like he said, he'll get Selky
votes again, but his offensive continuously projecting towards to be a sixty point guy
in his career. I don't know if he ever touches seventy or eighty points.
He might touch thirty goals. It could be next year, but I
guess it counts on is he gonna get majority of those on the power play
like he has before. But yeah, he could be a twenty five goal
guy next year for sure. Tremendous and Ryan Hartman just a few games into
the season heart and apparently heard a shoulder and missed November and the majority of
December. After a stretch with Kudrow and Boldi, he teamed up with Caprisoft
and Zucarello until Caprizof's injury late in the season that we've talked about. In
the end, the twenty eight year old put up a decent thirty seven points
at fifty nine games. That was a drop from the sixty five point eighty
two games the prior year, but otherwise way over the career norms he had
before that, do you expect Hartman to be back with that top line again
Caprisoft at Zucarello, And what are you expecting for twenty three twenty four,
something more like twenty one twenty two, or more like last year or something
else. I think so Hartman, it's probably a mix of both of those.
Like last year, he was pretty open and saying he was disappointed with
the way he was struggling. Obviously, two years prior he had a thirty
goal season, and whenever you scored thirty goals, everyone around the league he's
looking for you to duplicate that. And I think Hartman would be the first
to tell you that he did struggle, but he was a meeting that and
he was disappointed in that he did battle through some injuries. Obviously he was
playing with multiple different lines things like that. But I would expect that Hartman
is probably on the first line to start the season this year, which means
he would be with capriz Offen Zucarello. Again, that's if everyone's healthy coming
out of training camp, preseason, things like that. But with the way
that second line the Wild had last year, it's hard for me to imagine
they would break that up that being the Ec Johansson boldiline, So Hartman probably
sticks back with capriz Offen Zucarello, and then if Hartman gets hurt or Ec
gets hurt, whatever, you can mix and match with there and maybe move
up Rosy too. So I think Hartman probably will find himself in another top
six role this year, and if he struggles out the gate and that he
can move to the third line, maybe provide some scoring there as well.
But I don't necessarily think he can be a thirty goal scorer again, but
he could be somewhere in between the fifteen seventeen maybe twenty range goal season.
And just in terms of the rest of these defenseman just a catch all here
pick them. But we got Marcus Johansson, we got Freddie Gudroau, Marcus
Follino. All of them have their own strengths. What do you expect?
Who do you think is going to have the best season, at least from
a scoring perspective of that tier of offensive players for this team. Yeah,
I think, like you said, the Felinos and the Gudreaus of the world,
my guess is it would probably be Freddie Gudreau. If you're talking strictly
like the bottom six. We saw it last year and years before that.
Dean Evison loves to use Gudreau, whether it's just down a goal with a
minute left and the third things like that. But he was one goal away
from a twenty goal season last year, which I guess not a lot of
people probably expected, and he probably hovers it at that again this year,
maybe a fifteen goal mark, things like that, but I guess it depends
on who he plays with. Goodreau will probably start the year with Felino and
makes us believe that he could probably play with Marco Rossi on that line,
or maybe they move Brandon do him to that it's a third line, but
I think it's it's a hybrid third line. They can provide that defense and
that checking, but also they can pick up points and goals because just two
years ago Marcus Felino was a twenty goal scorer, so you can't necessarily count
him out as well, especially in a contract year two. But if I
were to bet on it, I would guess that Freddie Gudreau probably continues to
do what he's done. Great stuff on the forwards. Let's move over to
the blue line, and we're gonna start with Killen Addison, who was a
very frustrating guy at a roster in fantasy because when he was in the lineup,
he was very good. He often got on the top power play and
would semi regularly get an assist, but he didn't really do much else,
and then he was scratched a lot. So he ended up with three goals,
twenty six assists, and not much in the prepherrals. Just nineteen shots,
thirty eight blocks seventy seven or sorry, nineteen hit thirty eight block,
seventy seven shots, but eighteen power play points was really nice. As far
as I know, he's still unsigned and coming into this season, you look
at his underlyings. His offensive production on the power play was great, but
everywhere else he was a bit underwhelming. I do feel like his defensive play
is or his poor defensive play is a bit overblown, especially when you look
at his evolving hockey metrics, which are closer to league average, But I
know that's always been the rub against him. So, Dylan, what do
you expect from Addison this season? Is he gonna have fewer healthy scratches?
Is he gonna continue to run the top power play? Can he get over
a forty point pace. What do you think. Yeah, I think obviously,
first of all, they got to get him signed and get that done.
But I do think that probably will happen. And in terms of the
look on the season, like you mentioned, last year, it was like
it was a bit of a head scratcher, right, He's putting up all
these points on the power play to start the season and it's okay, a
rookie defender taking the league by notice things like that, and then he was
just getting scratched. And I think there's a little bit of his defensive game
that was causing him to be out of the lineup. But I guess what
didn't make sense for me is come trade deadline, they made a trade and
got John Klinberg, who is arguably way worse defensively than Kaitlin Addison, and
they basically told Addison that he can't strictly be a power play specialist. So
I think this year Addison is working a lot more on developing his defensive game
and making sure that he can be that two way guy and make sure that
he can be in the lineup every game this season. And I definitely think
he's capable of doing that. And then they're going to need him to do
that because I don't necessarily know who would run that top power play. We've
seen years before that Spurgeon can do it, but he's not going to pick
up ton of points when he's doing it. Not to say that he's not
the best quarterback for a power play, but Addison is probably a lot better.
So if Addison gets signed and it is done, I would expect him
to run the top power play until something else happens. Maybe they pick up
someone else in a trade, or maybe they trade him. But I definitely
think that if he's signed and a part of the team, he's probably going
to run the top power play. Jared Spurgeon actually led the team in again
evolving hockey's stains points above replacement. Just to pick the catch all here,
He's got a lot to recommend him. This guy a basic eleven goal,
twenty three assists, thirty four point in seventy nine game line is about in
line with his career average, although after points pay spike the year prior he
blocks two shots a game, he threw close to a hit per game,
shoots just under twice per game on the power play. He was well behind
killing Addison on the minute's chart, unlike the prior year when he was still
on the power play with one and he no longer skates twenty four minutes like
he did in his late twenties. But the captain's seven point six million dollar
contract that's still as four years remaining, isn't aging all that badly? Really,
is last year's pace what you expect from Spurgeon now and going board or
are there scenarios where you could see a different outcome coming next year? Yeah?
I think that I don't know. What he did last year is probably
what he's going to continue to do. He's, in my eyes, one
of the best defensive defenseman in the NHL, and you talked about some of
his analytics, it certainly backs it up. In terms of like offensive,
his ceiling is probably that ten to eleven goal season, and he'll probably hover
at around thirty to forty points. Maybe he hits fifty. That is very
possible, especially if he's getting all the power play time and things like that.
But in terms of I guess a fantasy offensive outlook for him, he's
probably a thirty to forty point guy, and he's shown that he is that
in previous years and it will probably continue to be that for sure, but
also provide fantastic defense. Speaking of fantastic defense, I wanted to talk about
one of the younger players on this team, Brock Faber, who made his
debut at the end of the season and then played in all six playoff games.
He was really good in those and even though he was just coming in
from college, He's got two years left at his entry level deal, and
when you look at what he provides, I think he's probably already close to
being one of the top four defenders on this team. Obviously, we'll have
to see how that works out. I don't necessarily think he's the most offensive.
We were talking about who could run the powerplay other than Addison, I
guess Fabor could, although I don't think that's necessarily his strong suit. But
I'm just more curious what you think we can expect from him this season.
Any chance he gets that power play time on ice and what kind of usage
do you think he gets, like second paying THIRDM pairing. What do you
think about Rock Faber? Yeah, I definitely he's going to start the season
playing with Jonas Birdine and be that second pair, which makes me believe that
he's going to be Rodin's always been out there against the league's best, like
to shut down guys things like that. Without Dumba this year, brock Favor
is pretty much the replacement, so he's going to get probably around twenty minutes
a night. In terms of power play, I think he's definitely capable of
running a power play. I don't know if they would throw him out there
on power play one and say, Okay, this is your power play to
run, but if say Spurgeon was hurt or Addison, things like that,
I think Favor is capable of doing it. He did a little bit of
it at the U of M throughout his career, but he obviously was a
captain there and he's known of being like that two way defensive guy. He's
always thought of being the defensive first. And then last year for the golfers,
he told us that he really wanted to take a step in his offensive
role. He had almost thirty points, which he's never had before in his
career, so he definitely took a step and called knowledge in terms of offensive
and I think when he broke into the NHL, you could see like a
comfortable manner for him that he didn't really want to make a mistake right away,
so he wasn't really jumping up into the offense or things like that.
But I think a couple of games into the playoffs, he's showing that,
Okay, I can do this now, I'm not really making any mistakes.
I'm trusting myself things like that, And he was actually getting outlet passes up
the zone things like that, and breaking the puck out with ease, which
can definitely lead into offense. And Favor is really good at breaking out the
puck and that that could lead into picking up a few points every now and
then. But in terms of where he's going to play, I would guess
he starts the season on the second line, some penalty killed time, things
like that, but he's definitely like a defensive first guy. Yeah, for
sure, that makes sense. I love brock Favor. He's so fun to
watch. But let's move on to the goalies and talking wild. They gave
up the second ranked expect a goal to sixty according to a Love mccockey,
but conceded the fifth actual goals, so they were a little bit below when
you look at the underlyings for their main goalies, especially a gust Ofson He
was basically right in line with the protection that was offered to him Mark Kunjri.
Fleury was a little bit lower. They obviously have both these guys.
It seemed like Gus was taken over here. They almost played the similar number
of games. I feel like that's going to change this year, and Gus
seems like he's coming more into that role. He had almost sixteen goals save
above expected and at one point one Delta Fenwick really good underlyings there for gust
Offson, and he's got three years left at three point seven five and just
one more year left for Flurry. Is that how you think the split's gonna
go? You think Gus is taken over maybe like a sixty forty split or
maybe even more. Yeah, I guess to start the season, you're probably
not going to think that it's going to be a sixty forty split. Obviously,
Fleury's thirty eight now, so he definitely isn't really capable of starting sixty
games like he used to. In terms of how many Gusts of Sin will
start, I definitely think he'll start more games than he did last year.
This is a guy that people were talking about should maybe get VESNA votes.
And when you hear that and you only see a guy that played thirty to
forty games, you would expect him to get more starts. Next year,
I definitely think Guvson will probably start at least around fifty games, So whatever
you want to say for a split, I think it could reach a sixty
forty, but out the gate to start the year, they might switch off
like they did last year. They even tried to do it in the playoffs.
So it just goes to show you that I guess it isn't one hundred
percent, but since Gus got that contract to three year contract, it shows
us that they're relying on him to be that starter. But he will eventually
take the net over and definitely next year have around sixty starts. But in
terms of this year, he'll probably be at range. I would expect to
be his max. I don't know if he hits sixty, but with Flory's
last year of his deal, I wouldn't expect that he only gets twenty starts
or something, so I would say around fifty for guests Ason two probably.
Yeah, that makes sense, and I think we should mention that they have
waiting in the wings. In my opinion, the best prospect goalie out there,
Jesper Walstead. He's one of my absolute favorites and he's been dominant.
He was in Sweden previously and in the HL this past season and he was
fantastic. And he's got a couple of years left on his entry level.
He's still really young. There's no reason to rush him, as we know,
they have Flory for one more year, even though he's getting up there.
But if we waited another year, he'd be starting the season as a
twenty one year old, and it's pretty early, but he's also played professionally
for several years. What do you think the timeline is for Wallstead? I
imagine this guy is pegged as a potential future starter, but obviously with Gusts
breaking out, it's a little bit complicated. It's a great problem to have
if they have two great goalies, but they also don't need to rush him.
So what do you think we should expect from Jesper? Yeah, I
think that's a fair question. If it was up to me, I wouldn't
necessarily probably even give Wallstead any games this year in the NHL. Now,
if both Gusts a sin and Fleury gets hurt, maybe you have to call
him up. But like he said, he's twenty years old right now,
and you never want to rush a goalie just because some goalies develop a lot
different than others. And although he might be capable of maybe playing, I
still wouldn't trust that, just because you never want to ruin a goalie.
And obviously Gus still has three years of his contract, so I think not
this upcoming season, but the following you'll probably see maybe a little bit of
Wallstead and then that would be your three of gusts a Sin's contract. The
final year, I would expect you would see Wallstead get in maybe twenty to
thirty games, and at that point he would be twenty two and gufts Asen
would be around twenty seven, I believe, and then the Wild can make
a decision going forward if they want to give the full duties to Wallstead in
three years or maybe want to resigned guftis in and split those two up again.
But in terms of this season, I would expect you probably wouldn't see
wall said, unless there is an emergency basis where they needed a goalie to
come up. But two years from now, three years from now, he's
probably going to break in the league there when he's around twenty two, Dylan,
some great stuff here. How can people follow all of your coverage of
the Minnesota Wild this year? Yeah, I guess kind of two ways.
You can just go to the Hockey News dot com and follow the Minnesota Wild
page, and then also if you have a Twitter you can follow it there.
It's Dylan Lows four that's the Twitter handle. Otherwise, yeah, follow
it on Twitter or obviously just Hockey News dot com slash Wild. Thank you
so much for being on today. Yeah, thanks for having me, Guys
Wilson. That's good. Fire passed off. Oh my goodness, go with
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Instincts. Time for another edition of Kat's Instincts with Cat Silverman in goldmag Minnesota
Wild edition. And you know what that means, Cat, It's time for
one of our absolute favorites. Yesper Walstat twenty twenty one drafted and twentieth overall.
What were the other nineteen or at least fourteen or fifteen teams thinking that
was really late? Six foot three, twenty and fourteen pound goalie, one
of my favorites to watch he had his first season in North America after being
in Sweden. He was really great for Lulaya, playing quite a number of
SHL games, including in his draft season, which was part of what I
liked so much about him getting those professional shots early. He was in Iowa
this past season and really great thirty eight games, nine or eight save percentage
two point six AGA. Wasn't quite as good in the playoffs, but he
didn't have the biggest sample size either, And then he went to the World
Juniors and had zero point six seven GA nine forty seven save percentage in three
games. That was just wild for a not super strong Sweden team. I
would say so that along with looking at his underlyings his goal save or sorry,
his save percentage above expected and the AHL was like quite literally one of
the best in the league. So also impressive for such a young guy.
We when you look at his equivalences, he no joke looks like andre Vassilevski,
that's the caliber. He looks like Samsunoff, Barbrowski, a scar Off
or other guys. He looks like he just seems like he's going to be
a future star starting goalie. Cat What are you're in things tell us about
walst It. I love him. I can't. I can't edge dust and
Wolfe out of my spot as the number one goal in the HL last year
because he's a very short American and so he holds my heart. But I
think that Walstet was one of the most effective when it came to just maturity
level of his game, even during his draft year, watching him play the
decision making, not just when it came to like his safe selections, but
when I came to his reaction speeds to certain things, when I came to
his ability to get fooled by cross ice plays and shot trickery and even just
blade positioning, he seemed like he was operating from a place of just some
guys just have that hockey iq where they just seem like they read the game
that much faster than everyone else and know what to do with it. And
that's what he looked like. He just had that good elite decision making power
and seemed like get good control to his game. He plays like a fairly
stereotypical Swedish goaltender, really has a lot of good lateral movement, doesn't mind
playing from his knees for the game. If he needs to. But outside
of that, he also just looked like he understood when he needed to shy
away from his traditional style in order to make some TRICKI or saves, and
I think that's part of why we saw him makes such a good transition to
North America. It reminded me of when we would talk about igershas Sterkin before
he came over to North America. He played a game that showed that he
understood depending on the style of game that was oncoming. Adam was able to
adapt his repertoire of saves selections to match what was going on across the ice
from him. And that's something that we saw make a fairly smooth transition for
shous Stark, and we saw it make a good transition for Wallstet. I
think some of the other teams in the Midwest probably could have used with drafting
him that year, and their decision not to is neither here nor there.
That's all right for them. We'll see how that goes. I think he's
going to be NHL already soon. But Minnesota's been doing a really good job
of not leaving. They're covered completely bare, so they have options at the
NHL level and don't need to rush him, which is I think fantastic.
Yeah, definitely, it's good to have options. It's good to not rush
him, but he certainly does seem like he's ready. And yeah, there
were definitely several other teams that probably feel like they could have used him by
now. I really thought that Edmonton was gonna take him, and I believe
they traded back from that spot, and I was confused by that wild choice
on their part. Yeah, I think they could use him now anyways.
So they don't need anyone else other than just for Walstet because he's so great,
But they do have someone else. Hunter Jones is another goalie in their
system, and he was the twenty nineteen second round pick by the Wild six
five, two hundred five pounds. He's now twenty two. He's mainly been
in the ECHL the past season, and part of that this past season might
have been to give Walstet more starts. And so he did play a significant
role for the Iowa Heartlanders and he got some pretty good numbers there nine oh
five save percentage. What do you think about Hunter Jones? Is he going
to be just back up at best kind of guy? His equivalence he's looked
like that. I think at this point he still has the promise of being
a little bit better than that, but that's what he's trending towards for sure.
When he got drafted, I really liked him his draft gear because he
was a bigger goaltender who seemed like he had some good speed to his game,
and then it seemed like his conditioning kind of fell off a little bit.
I didn't love how his trajectory went after he got drafted, and it
seemed like he fell off there technically and didn't seem like he was really wowing
like a second round pick should have. But there have been other goaltenders in
the Minnesota system who have been oversized goaltenders who know how to use some speed.
Because Hunter Jones really did have some decent skating speed when he was willing
to use it, which kind of reminded me of Darcy Kemper, who spent
a really long time in Minnesota system being offered the starting role and saying no,
thank you. So that's not what I'm here for. I'd like to
I'd like to stay as a backup in the AHL and then really broke out
once he went to La and then obviously did really well with Arizona and then
Colorado and now we're seeing what happens with Washington. But we've seen bigger goaltenders
just need a little extra marination in the Minnesota system. And I don't know
if that's because that team plays a slightly more lethargic game and so their goaltender
almost has to be twice as quick, or if it's just coincidence, that's
probably it. But I think he's still got time to potentially bounce back from
what's been a lackluster post draft career so far. But I don't think he
comes anywhere close to Wallstett in style and maturity of his game and overall promise,
which obviously his equivalency shows is the case. So I don't think he's
worth dismissing, but I don't think he's worth getting quite as excited over.
I can't get more excited about him than while said it's physically impossible. So
thanks God for giving us your instincts on the Minnesota Wild goalies. We'll be
back right after this the Dynasty Day, the Minnesota Wild Edition Victor the Minnesota
Wild. You have gone in and ranked, You've racked and stacked their prospects
and you love them. You ranked them fourth among all the NHL franchises.
It starts with the no brainer, Victor, I still love that you're leading
off with this guy. Who is it? And know that you love that
because this was your guy, Danilla. You're off? And actually I actually
mentioned before we get into You're Off, that part of the reason this team
is ranked so high is Yesper Walstat, who we talked about previously in a
different part of the show, but since since we had Kat covering him,
there's no reason for me to talk about him. But You're off is a
reasonable no brainer here. Yeah, he was definitely your guy in the twenty
twenty two ranks when we were talking about that. He's a first round pick
by Minister, a twenty fourth overall and six ft one hundred seventy two pound
right wing. He played primarily in the KHL last season. After fifteen points
in twelve games in the MHL and in the KHL time he had twelve points
in fifty nine games, so that was not the best production for Metallurg mag
Nittagorsk and at the end of the season he resigned in Russia, which was
a little disappointing. I think some Wild fans were hoping he would come over,
but he only resigned for one season and he's only nineteen. He'll be
twenty this season, so it's not unreasonable to play one more season there and
then potentially come over after that. The KHL season has already started at the
time of this recording. Four points in six games has been pretty good for
the same team already in the KHL. So that's a pretty decent production so
far. And we have to hear a little bit more about year off and
so from to do that, we're gonna hear from our HL scout. That's
right, Victor, and it's okay. This guy is not MYOV. He
can be EUROV too. He can be everybody's off. This guy, Danilla
Brandon is our FHL Scott in this case skating eurof has a very active motor
and drive that allows for powerful acceleration. What sets him apart from a skating
style perspective is that while his cadence can run at a higher rate, there
is significant and authoritative force put into the way his feet interact with end land
on the ice, passinger and handling soft touch, especially in shorter ranges.
Eurof shows more conviction with this puck movement and later viewings when he started to
make longer passes like rink wide passes that were executed more force and speed.
The way Eurof shields the puck and remains in motion, especially along the boards,
ought to translate well to various levels the pro game and shooting. He
shows that he has a threat that ought not go unchecked, as his wrist
shot, even from the top of the circle was lethal and could beat the
goaltender clean. Close to the net, Euroff shows off his soft touch when
deking the goalie and puts the puck into the net with a little flourish.
While technically not a direct shot, his hand eye coordination remains a dangerous option
for deflections IQ. Eurof's modus operandi seems to be relentless attack with and without
the puck. On offense, to borrow a football analogy, his style is
closer to a tight end, where he will run a short pattern up the
ice to pose as a past target. On defense, his style is close
to a cornerback as he encroaches while aiming to distract and disrupt the puck carrier.
I appreciate those brandon for checking for check is one of Euroff's calling cards
in areas he can improve upon. Skating a drive allows him to step up
as f one time and again to pressure deep in the ozone. This position
work then paired with being a spatial nuisance instead of being a puck retrieval prodigy.
While carrying momentum in a frame on the largest side of the ledger,
he rarely engages or punishes physically, so mixed bag there defense. Eurofe typically
sticks two above the circles inside the D zone, but anything that is funneled
to the point on his side of the ice is met with immediate pressure.
Europe's better suited on the back check, where there is motion to suit his
style of play. This allows him to swoop in and pick a pocket as
the play moves laterally on the zone entry. If facing the rush, Europe
will not sit back and collapse, but pressure of the zone entry at the
blue line and has been successful in stirring up turnovers in this manner. The
best asset aggressive, relentless motor with dexterous puck feel. Biggest concern. Can
he use the skating and frame to carry the puck into a situation where he
can reliably generate more for his team beyond zone entries, the top tier outcome
true sixty five plus point top six power forward with fourays into the point per
game territory, mid high end shot potential, and the median outcome thirty to
forty point middle six checking an energy role. If he goes lower in the
lineup, there could be an uptick in hits, but probably not to an
elite level in a stylistic comparable somewhere between Mark Stone and maxim A Feno Ginoff
with a hint of Rick Nash. Wow, all right, and the NHL
rank King's equivalency score it has been popping in the last year. Remember it's
been tough with his production, but now he's showing it. He's above first
line potential in terms of this year's equivalency, which is not based on an
enormous sample, but Nathan Bastian, Anders Bjork Jacob Delirose are his top p
NHLI similarity scores. We'll see what happens when he gets a little bit more
time. But in terms of a poll out there, Dania Lyuroff was put
up against Noah Oceland, who was drafted eight picks before him in the twenty
twenty two draft, and Uroff defeats Oceland by a fairly narrow margin fifty three
to forty seven. Sent Victor, Is that how you see this breaking down?
Yeah, I think so. I think that's reasonable. Ausland is an
excellent real life player. He's the part of that Your Garden trio with Ogrin
and Lekanamaki, and I think that Oceland is by far the best all around
player of that group, and he's the center most likely, and he'll be
probably counted on to do a lot of heavy lifting defensively two way play,
and so I think that's more reasonable in terms of if you want an actual,
like for sure NHL player, But I don't also don't know that the
upside is huge for Austin. I think he probably is similar to this pnhle
of like maybe a fifty to sixty point player who's gonna take face offs and
be good all around, but may not have the best offensive upside. You're
off on the other hand, being a winger, being a skilled winger and
potentially being part of this Minnesota group workupriest Off and Boldy and these other guys
will still be there, like maybe he takes Zucarello spot at some point in
the next couple of years, So I think that's reasonable. I think that
I would rather have You're Off because he's gonna find it easier to get those
offensive minutes. His equivalenc's much higher. If you just look at the hockey
prospect equivalency between these two, it's much higher for You're Off forty six percent,
down from sixty one but still very high, and Ousland nineteen down to
twelve percent. So he had a tough year with in Sweden. Yeah,
I would take You're Off. I think the NHLOR probability is higher for Oceland
though, And if you just look at some of other comps for You're Off,
he's got some interesting ones, some really good ones like Taylor Hall,
Vincent damp Fuss, Maryon Gaberick. Seems a little unlikely that he'll hit those
highs, but the guys like Alexis Lafrenier is one that he looks a fair
amount like, who continued to trend down and now is maybe a bit disappointing
slash coming into his own Depending on which narrative you want to believe. I
think Lafrenier is just that sixty to seventy point guy. If everything breaks right,
so you're off, I think could be that maybe a little bit more.
I like your off still there. And if you look at the top
down hockey model, you have just four percent chance of being a star for
your off, fifteen percent chance of being an NHL or so quite a bit
down down there for your off. So yeah, I think that he's continued
to increase his potential. Though if you, as you mentioned with the ranking,
potential looks like he's trending up with a hockey prospecting, he's trending down.
And I think overall he's someone that I definitely would be interested in getting.
Especially since he went a little bit later in the first maybe people are
a little less excited about him, and maybe you can capitalize on that fact
that he resigned in Russia. Maybe people are gonna think, oh, he's
never coming over. I think he will. He definitely wants to for sure,
Victor. That was our first man up. Now let's talk about our
need to know prospect. Yeah, I need to know. I just meant
him. Liam ogrin Ogren twenty twenty two, first round pick, nineteenth overall
six one eighty seven pound left wing. He was with Drew Gardens if of
the hockey El Spenskin and part of that trio that I mentioned. He was
definitely my favorite of the three. I think that he's a blend of that
good in real life but also has good offensive upside, whereas luck at Amaki,
the other one is basically just all offense and he had a down year,
but he's looking better now is luck at Amaki? Anyways, with Drew
Gardens last year, Ogrin had eleven goals, nine assist for twenty points and
thirty six games, and then really turn it on in the qualification playoffs thirteen
points and seventeen games. Sure, Gardens came really close but didn't quite get
promotion back to the SHL. But that's okay because thankfully Ogrin is going to
be loaned to Farjerstad in the SHL, so he will be getting some SHL
games this year, which is good because he really I think he needs that.
He's ready for a little bit tougher competition. He strug well the previous
season in the SHL with just twenty It's just two points in twenty five games.
But he's a little bit of a load the player now, and I
think he should do. He's already signed so he could play NHL games at
the end of this current season. And we have to know a little bit
more about what makes Ogrim tick. And for that we'll hear from our FHL
scout. Yes, indeed, we will hear from our FHL scout on this
one. Ogren is a cerebral skater and can shift from subtle edgework away from
the puck to a high torque motor that allows him to insert himself into a
developing play. His skating is fundamentally sound, has hip mobility that he uses
to creatively accessed edges while shifting through the motions to maintain momentum and position.
At times, he looks like he could benefit from more core connectivity that would
better bind his upper and lower halves. Passing and handling, he's an interceptor
supreme and turnover generator near center ice in the neutral zone. After intercepting the
puck, he often will move the puck forward with a shorter range give and
go play to enter the zone. When looking to make a pass under pressure,
he usually allows the pursuing attack or to encroach and make the first move
that Ogrin can use to make a pass to a teammate in motion. For
shooting, Ogrin's shot, regardless of selection, tends to carry some extra gusto
with it, and this is made evident by how audible his shots are through
the release most powerful weapon, the one touch timer, where he drops to
one knee to let the shot rip in motion and during zone entries, his
wrist shot is released in stride and has let go with impressive velocity the IQ
great poison patience. Both with and without the puck, he will hold the
puck for an extra beat or two while remaining in motion and at a distance
from an attacking threat. Buys this extra time for himself to survey the developing
scene and look for the best play to make quite versatile ought to avoid being
typecast as one style of player. Ogrin's mortar and linear speed allow him to
be a threatening four checker that is very willing to throw his body to finish
the check. He often adds an extra pop to his checks as he is
following through and in defense, he will typically take the role of a half
wall pass option to serve as a bumper to break the puck out if the
play gets congested near his jurisdiction, He'll lend a helping stick to free up
the puck and allow the play to openly flow again. He's conscious of open
ice, will float into the middle of the ice wind play is up against
the board of his off wing. Best asset was that IQ demonstrated through a
patient, yet determined level of playmaking, creativity, and the biggest concern.
There's no glaring gaps or concerns, but there's room for development and refinement of
most of the tools in his toolbox. That said, developing more potent and
efficient acceleration would make the most of his current skill set. The top tier
outcome for Ogrin a top six winger translate a transition specialist that is the secondary
play driving piece on his line perennially near sixty points in a seventy plus range
above average shot totals with some hits sprinkled into the mix. Would benefit from
power play deployment on a unit that is built around player movement. Median outcome
would be a middle six thirty to forty point winner with some special teams deployment.
Seems like E is suited to be a very multiple coach's favorite and the
stylistic comparable the tenacity and motor of near prime Klaujarut mixed with the style and
positional play of Kyle Conner, along with shades of the patient's subtle one touch
creativity and shot velocity of adoring Kempe. That was, by the way,
a scouting report by our buddy Brandon the NHL Rank King data and poll for
Ogren, he is about a second line potential P and P NHL E equivalency,
and we're going to compare him to Nikolai Kovalenko of the Colorado Avalanche draft
from two thousand eighteen, and who would you rather have on your fantasy team?
Ogred beats him out. That seems like a fairly fairly light target to
go against, but Ogren beats him out sixty two to thirty eight percent.
Victor, is that the way that you would do this one? Yeah?
I would take Ogren here. I know that Kovalenko is someone that people are
really excited about. He's a Colorado prospect who was drafted really late in twenty
eighteen, and he's been over in Russia and he's one of these kind of
quote unquote late bloomers. If you believe in that kind of thing. He
basically hadn't done anything until this past season where for Torpedo he had fifty four
points in fifty six games. Who's not a really strong KHL team. So
I think people are excited about him and his potential to step into the AVS
lineup. But he's still going to be in Russia next this season, and
so we're looking at next season for him to come over, which is probably
similar to Ogren. Anyways, I just think Ogren has more upside, so
I still like him a little bit more. I think there's a lot of
questions still about Covalenco, and so I would definitely take Ogren even though his
start potential has trended down for twenty five to eleven percent. Covalenco's is basically
at zero because he graduated the model last season when he hadn't done so much.
And then if you look at some of other comps for Ogrin, he
looks some guys Jack Quinn, Philips, Adina, Alex Nilander. Not super
exciting, but I still think there's some decent potential there. The Jay Fresh
card a little pessimistic two percent chance of being a started, twelve percent chance
of being an NHL. So that's Liam Ogrin and Victor. Now we have
the third and final who is to keep your eye on prospect for this Minnesota
Wild team. You must keep your eye on Brock Faber, twenty twenty second
round pick by the LA Kings, six foot one, two hundred pound right
handed d. He was part of the Kevin Fiala trade. He's a Minnesota
boy. He's born in Maple Grove, and he went to the USNTDP,
went to University Minnesota, and so it's only fitting that he came back to
Minnesota in that trade. I think that was a fantastic piece of business by
the Wild, who didn't seem like they were gonna sign fiel A long term
anyway. So just finished his third season there at the University of Minnesota as
their captain for goals twenty seven, twenty three assists for twenty seven points in
thirty eight games. Really great production there. Played two games for the while
at the end of the season in six playoff games, no points, but
he was really good for them. He was I think impressively good for a
team in such a high competitive window. That's always hard when you finish your
collar season. Yeah, the Frozen four is intense and all that, but
you step into the NHL in the playoffs like that's several levels above an intensity
level, and he did not look out of place at all. In fact,
he looked like one of their best players at times. He even saved
a goal. As I mentioned when I was on keeping Carlson. He's just
so good, and two years left on his entry level deal, I think
he's already probably their fourth best defenseman and has the potential to be top pairing
material, if not second pairing. Looking at his tracking data from Mitch Brown,
his transition game is his calling card. He's really excellent at pretty much
all things transition entries, exits, success, cross lane passes, really good
at primary assists per sixty as well. The one thing he's not as so
much as his expected goals or shots and isn't much in the peripheral categories,
which is unfortunate. Actually, this tracking data has his defense is not as
good, which I think is weird, although most of that negative is from
his entry prevention, which isn't as good as it could be. But the
rest of the things are pretty good, like his retrievals and his corsie.
This doesn't track everything. As Mitch would tell you, I think we all
think of brock Fabor as an excellent defensive player, and to hear a little
bit more about what makes him tick. Let's hear from our FHL scout that's
right or FHL scout Tony weighs in on Brock Faber skating good to very good
passing and handling. Good passing, especially in the offensive zone, effective getting
the puck out of the defensive zone, and just overall good puck handling.
Shooting good, especially from above the faceoff dots IQ positional awareness is positive.
Offensive anticipation although not used that way in college or a few pro games.
Panic meter is nil in college, seems to be a little bit increased in
the few NHL games in playoffs. Favor has so far experienced defense. Good
defensive position, not much rushing, but first passes effective to start team out
of the d zone. Not overly physical in zone, but solid, able
to switch between the offense and defense. Best asset was that skating. The
very good solid skating does a lot of subtle things that make a good hockey
player. The biggest concern aggressiveness, not aggressive enough when he should be The
top tier role or potential is going to be tier two. He's got the
offensive skills skating, passing, shooting, but seems to be put in a
more defensive role and if he does not get more aggressive in the median outcome
for him third pairer defenseman with minimal power play time could be a penalty kill
type. The stylistic comparison for Favor is Charlie McAvoy. That would be pretty
nice and Brock Fabre's NHL ranked King Dad. Of course, we know once
a guy debuts, we're not going to get equivalency guys, but he's trending
up toward between first and second line potential in terms of where his equivalences were
last year. And for our comparison, Brock Fabor head to head with Thomas
Harley, that's some serious competition as Harley has also debuted for the Dallas Stars.
And Harley won but not by much fifty four to forty six percent Harley
over Fabor Victor. Is that the way you'd rank them in the margin you
give them? Yeah? Probably. I think I love Brock Favor. He's
just such a good player. As I've mentioned before, I just he's someone
that you definitely wanted your team, And yeah, that's interesting thing about him
and Charlie McAvoy. Macavoy was someone who came in and he was pretty good
right away, but he doesn't getting all the opportunity, wasn't really getting a
lot of power play points. He had decent production. He was at forty
ish thirty to forty ish point guy, and then once he got the opportunity,
then he's like a beast, right because he does have pretty good peripheral
coverage. I don't think Fabor is going to be that good in the peripherals,
but I think he has that upside in terms of just someone you rely
on in all situations, and he certainly can be a forty to fifty point
guy in the right situation if he's given the opportunity, which there isn't really
an air apparent there. I know there's Addison's He's got struggles. He has
the shoes Hardy I loved too. He's got a mirror high skinning problem,
and I think that he's someone who could eventually compete for at opportunity with high
skinning, but he's also not as good all around. He could be like
a second pairing split power play guy, So I think I would take Harley
just because he has more offensive upside. So I think this poll is pretty
accurate just in that sense too, that it's pretty close. Both these guys
are very good. I think that Favor will probably be more important to the
team, to his team, and Thomas Harley might be more important to your
fantasy team. So that's how I would put that. If you look at
the comparison between the two in hockey prospecting, there's no question that Harley has
more offensive upside and his equivalency is much higher. He covered in that mid
twenties to forty percent star potential, graduated at thirty two percent after a down
season in the HL, but he's got a pretty good chance of being a
good producer at the next level, Whereas Favor was in that subten percent range
his whole time, and he continued. He graduated in that range, but
actually not even the highest NHL or probability, which I find interesting because he
is I think, to me, clearly an NHLer, no question, and
some of the other Favors comps are are disappointing. Actually some pretty replacement level
comparisons. Lucas Carlson is someone who's in the league right now, Connor Carrick,
someone who isn't really that exciting but plays games a little disappointing there for
his other comps. And then you look at Jay Fresh and it's incredibly pessimistic.
Zero percent chance of being a star for brock Faber, the four hundred
and sixtieth ranked prospect in its data set, crazy and just twelve percent chance
of being an NHLer, which I find ludacrous. That's crazy talk to he's
going to be an NHLers. Sometimes the analytics don't always work out right,
but to me, that's that's a failure because I think brock Faber is way
better than that. Anyhow, there are more guys we could talk about,
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