1 00:00:03,839 --> 00:00:12,800 Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks. Here shits your source 2 00:00:12,839 --> 00:00:16,879 of information and analysis to help you win your fantasy hockey league. Block off, 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:22,320 hot A step hit on, stay lock. Here's your hosts, Jesse 4 00:00:22,399 --> 00:00:26,760 Severe and Victor Noon you got is the hockey lie back once again. It's 5 00:00:26,879 --> 00:00:31,960 Jesse Severe from fan Tracks and over there the number one forty nine Ers fan 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,159 in the world, the most dedicated, the most absolutely committed forty nine Ers 7 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,240 fan in the world is Victor Nunio of EP Rings side Victor, how you 8 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,960 doing, I'm doing great. Yeah, you all have to deal with the 9 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:48,880 forty nine Ers fandom for one more week. As you all know, they 10 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,119 won, and it was actually it was pretty tenuous most of that game, 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:57,079 and unfortunately I had to watch on my phone as I was driving up too. 12 00:00:57,159 --> 00:01:00,600 Was directing a conference on Sunday, so I had to go over there, 13 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:03,159 and my poor wife, We're driving, it's rainy, it's dark, 14 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,280 and I'm like watching on this little screen and every once in a while there's 15 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,400 a yeah, oh, and she's like, oh, what happened? Like 16 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,519 getting you were driving the car, Victor, No, No, she was 17 00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:18,319 driving. I was watching. Oh okay, But the hearing her. That's 18 00:01:18,359 --> 00:01:21,879 why God created Radio Victors so that you could listen to it while you're in 19 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,359 the car. But okay, no, no, you got to be able 20 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:30,920 to watch it. I will release this Sunday morning before the forty nine Ers 21 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,640 play, so that we either because either folks, by the time you listen 22 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,959 to this, we're gonna get two more weeks of this, or victory. 23 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:44,640 We're gonna release this before any disappointment takes old with our main Victor, so 24 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,239 we'll see which of the two it is. I'm gonna be like the Homer 25 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,400 Simpson, fading with my forty nine Ers hat into the bushes and coming out 26 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,200 with I don't know what I'm gonna come out with. Actually that's a good 27 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,719 question. Oh my gosh. Yeah, it'll be a bit on the Giants. 28 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:00,519 It'll be a bit on the Giant probably a couple of years. But 29 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:05,079 you never know. Those guys are always sneaking up, Victor. We've got 30 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,039 important things to talk about today, more important to fantasy hockey fans even than 31 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,439 the forty nine Ers. The place that they can discuss them at their convenience 32 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:19,719 at any time is in our Fantasy Hockey Life Discord it's free to join. 33 00:02:19,879 --> 00:02:22,039 All you have to do is get a hold of Victor and I. How 34 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,080 do you do that. You say you've never seen Victor or myself in your 35 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:29,159 neighborhood. Let me tell you. You can email us Fantasyhockeylife at gmail dot 36 00:02:29,199 --> 00:02:34,120 com or reach out to us on x at Fanhockey Life is one way to 37 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:39,000 catch me. At Victor Nuno twelve is a great way to catch Victor pop 38 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,199 on in. We got hundreds of people who are just milling around in there 39 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,280 talking hockey all the time. And in addition to that, if you want 40 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:50,199 to take it to the next level, take our relationship to the next level. 41 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,360 Victor, not yours, in mine, yours and the patriots or ours 42 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:58,159 and the other people. What can people do and what can they expect? 43 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:01,599 Yeah, if you want to support the show and get some extra bonus content, 44 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:07,120 you can do that over at patreon dot com slash Fantasy Hockey Life, 45 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:09,400 and you can get patron casts, which we're doing next week, and then 46 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,960 all kinds of extra things like a Patron Priority channel, you can get access 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,360 to my ranks and next week our show, we're going to be talking with 48 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,360 Kat Silverman, who's going to look at my goalie ranks and laugh at them 49 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,520 and then point out how wrong they are. So that should be fun. 50 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,240 But yeah, all kinds of great extra bonus content, and you can help 51 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,520 support the show because a lot of these subscriptions do cost some money, so 52 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:38,080 it's nice to be able to do that good stuff. Victor. That is 53 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,280 going to get a setup to get into our talk today. We're going to 54 00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:43,960 take a brief break and then on the other side it's going to be you 55 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:53,960 and me some more, but on something different, Victor, we are once 56 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,719 again looking at some of the players you have dived deeply into in the recent 57 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:02,840 path for ep rnkside, where you write articles, but they're behind a paywall 58 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:08,560 and before people or maybe some people have already gone back there and read them. 59 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,680 Maybe some people need to subscribe to that. I'm not chilling pre ep 60 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,759 rnkside here, but regardless, we can talk about some of these players that 61 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:21,439 you've been writing about recently because you've had interesting insights to provide. The first 62 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:28,879 one, Victor Quentin Musty, one of San Jose's first round picks last year. 63 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,160 Musty was excellent last year but is in beast mode this year. Six 64 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:39,279 ' two left winger pushing two points per game on his third tour with the 65 00:04:39,319 --> 00:04:46,079 Sudbury Wolves. Only Easton Cowen is averaging more than Quentin Musty is in terms 66 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:51,279 of point per game in the OHL. He is in a decent situation in 67 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,959 Sudbury. Dellabar Divorski and David Gayette are both there, so he's not alone 68 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,040 on that team. It's a decent team. Only London and Kitchener have actually 69 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:03,399 scored more goals in the OHL. But it's pretty hard to say Quentin Musty 70 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:09,399 doesn't have something to say about what is going on there. Quentin Musky, 71 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:15,920 Quentin Musty of the San Jose Sharks prospect system, what do you think of 72 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:19,079 this guy? And is this really what we can expect for him going forward? 73 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:24,759 Yeah, he's a really exciting prospect and yeah, he's been awesome. 74 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,800 He famously did not get invited to the US's World Junior Selection camp. A 75 00:05:30,879 --> 00:05:33,879 lot of people think that's because he's in the OHL and ten to favor their 76 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,920 USNTDP guys, and I think, you know how, whatever you think of 77 00:05:38,959 --> 00:05:42,040 that, it's pretty clear that might have irked Musty a little bit. And 78 00:05:42,079 --> 00:05:46,079 he's I'll show you guys and he's been showing up pretty well and really putting 79 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,959 up a ton of points. Pretty much any model you look at which I 80 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,959 go through in the article, he looks awesome, Like whether it's Hockey prospecting, 81 00:05:54,079 --> 00:05:58,279 whether it's Mason Black's pnhl E, he pretty much looks like a superstar 82 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,560 first line type player. Even the top down hockey model, which is notoriously 83 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:08,279 conservative for players. He ends up being one of the top players in this 84 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:14,199 data set. He's the twelve, so that's pretty fantastic and pretty much any 85 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,959 way you exliceaid, he looks really good, except there's a couple of interesting 86 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:25,199 things like his Mitch just recently published his twenty twenty three twenty four tracking data 87 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,720 and what's interesting. A couple things are interesting about this one is that for 88 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:36,040 Musty, he shows out amazingly offensively. His expected goals and assists legit dual 89 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:40,639 threat are both like off the charts. He looks incredible. He's not like 90 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,720 the biggest volume shooter, and that probably goes speaks a little bit to his 91 00:06:44,759 --> 00:06:47,920 playmaking ability. He's not always looking just to shoot. He is looking to 92 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:53,319 make the best pass and set up a play. But he doesn't shoot a 93 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,240 ton his transition game is really good, but some of his defensive metrics don't 94 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,480 look that good. But when you actually dig into it, which is that 95 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,480 he's really not an offensive zone retrieval kind of guy, Like he's not a 96 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,759 dump and chase kind of guy, which kind of makes sense because when you 97 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,319 watch him play, he's all about getting in the zone, like he likes 98 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,560 getting the puck in, passing it in. But he's not someone who's he's 99 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,160 not the fastest guy, so he's not like that good at dumping the puck 100 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:24,399 in and going and getting it. So that's part of why his defensive metrics 101 00:07:24,439 --> 00:07:28,160 look poor. But I'm not sure that's entirely accurate, because he's actually pretty 102 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,399 good at picking players pockets, being in good position, playing decent defensively, 103 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:39,240 So I think some of those defensive metrics are not necessarily accurate. And actually 104 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:42,839 I've found something else out Jesse. When I was prepping for this episode, 105 00:07:42,879 --> 00:07:46,560 I did not realize that my ep ring site colleague and previous guests on this 106 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:53,000 show, Chase McCollum, has a really cool site that actually compares and plots 107 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,800 out players development. So I put some of these in the notes for all 108 00:07:56,839 --> 00:08:00,759 the patrons. That's another plug you can look at these. It's really cool. 109 00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:03,279 And Quinn Musty in this model too, looks like a first line player 110 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:07,920 and has been basically his entire trajectory, which I think is another important thing 111 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,240 that not all models look at. I know Mason's is really good at this, 112 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,879 but it's nice to be able to see. It's a little bit disbelievable 113 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:20,519 if someone is a first line player now but they were a third line player 114 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,600 the last two years. That huge spike is sometimes a little hard to believe. 115 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,920 But in Musty's case, it looks great pretty much all the way around. 116 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,960 And I know when we talked to Lauren Kelly of Eperring Side, and 117 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,919 she's the Ohl scout, she basically had a hard time capping Quinn Musty's ceiling 118 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:43,519 because it's just sky high. So, yeah, he's great. You can't 119 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:48,200 really go wrong if you have him, because he's gonna he's pretty much gonna 120 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,200 be I think, a top of the lineup player, if not a top 121 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,000 line, he'll certainly be a top sixer. Yeah, this is a new 122 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,759 database that you've pulled into the show notes and fascinating stuff. Yeah, he's 123 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:03,960 definitely on the trajector or you want right now. We engaged our friend Mason 124 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,200 Black, the NHL rankking on X to put out a poll to see what 125 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:13,480 people thought. Quentin Muskie was not against. He was not against my off 126 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:16,240 victory. He was against eure Off Danilla. You're off, to be specific, 127 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,480 blast from the past, one of my boys, and You're Off rather 128 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:28,039 handily outperformed Quentin Musty in this poll, fifty eight to forty two. That's 129 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:33,799 interesting. Is that a product of You're Off having maybe a little more prominence 130 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,919 prior to this, maybe a little more draft stock or are people right that 131 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,799 You're Off is still a better prospect than Musty? Yeah? I think it's 132 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,960 maybe it's hard to compare the leagues, right, So you're Off playing in 133 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,320 the KHL, I think is going to be super impressive. He's right now 134 00:09:52,799 --> 00:10:00,399 showing out really well for Metallurg magnetig Orsk in the KHL forty two points fifty 135 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,639 one games. You're Off is now twenty. He just turned twenty, so 136 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,440 he's still pretty young. He's producing in a really tough league. You love 137 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:11,679 to see that. He played fifty nine games last season in the KHL but 138 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,360 didn't score a ton, just twelve points. I know when we had Chased 139 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,000 on we talked about the low games played. That's always something to keep in 140 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:22,200 mind. That's not like super low, but it's certainly lower than the OHL. 141 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:28,080 And then you look over at Musty's games played and they play a few 142 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,799 more, and so that can sometimes skew your data a little bit. But 143 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:37,200 the KHL started their season so much earlier that they're already ahead in terms of 144 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:39,200 games played. So I think the league is part of it. And we 145 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:43,919 did talk about how difficult the league is, which the KHL has been getting 146 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,679 easier, but it's certainly a higher equivalency league than the OHL. One of 147 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,320 the things that's interesting about this, and I don't know that I would necessarily 148 00:10:52,399 --> 00:10:54,960 just pick You're off absolutely, is that when you look at the trend on 149 00:10:56,399 --> 00:11:01,279 Chase's site, You're off was basically looked really good early on when he was 150 00:11:01,279 --> 00:11:05,639 playing in the NHL, and then the last two seasons he's dipped below a 151 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,759 third line potential, and then this season skyrocketed back up to above a first 152 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:13,240 line potential. This is one of those cases, like I was saying, 153 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,279 what do you believe? Do you believe what's happening now or do you believe 154 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:18,919 the last couple of seasons did that play into it at all or was it 155 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,879 just bad luck? So I like the Musty has and you can see this 156 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:30,600 also in Mason's pnhlege Grafts. Musty has been pretty consistently high throughout, whereas 157 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,759 you'rerov was much lower and is now jumping up to be much higher. I 158 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:37,879 think it's much closer than this. I really like Musty, and I think 159 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:43,480 he demands first line attention. I'm not one hundred percent sold on you're off 160 00:11:43,519 --> 00:11:46,080 on that. I think he's clearly a talented player, and I think that 161 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:52,279 in that Minnesota system he is probably going to play in the top six, 162 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,759 but he might be more of a middle six guy, and they have some 163 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,679 other pretty good options there. I don't think anyone is taking the left wing 164 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:03,720 spot away from Quinn Musty, unless it's William Ecklin, but I think that 165 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:07,200 they could probably move one to the other side. They don't have a plethora 166 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,120 of options there in Santa die at least right now, that are better, 167 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:13,720 so I think that probably factors into it a little bit. The hockey prospecting 168 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,720 looks pretty similar for these guys, so I don't know that I agree with 169 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,759 the poll. I think that it makes sense based on where your off is 170 00:12:20,799 --> 00:12:22,720 playing, but I think it's probably a coin flip and the reality is that 171 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,000 you're probably good either way. But I personally would take Musty Jesse, which 172 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,200 probably does not surprise you. Yeah, I no, it doesn't. I 173 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,840 know you've been high on Musty. You're off. Of course, you just 174 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:37,320 have the question about coming over. Minnesota has had some success with that, 175 00:12:37,519 --> 00:12:43,039 but you just never know, so that is quite the comparison. Let's move 176 00:12:43,039 --> 00:12:48,559 on to the second of three we're going to talk about today. Jagger Furcus. 177 00:12:48,039 --> 00:12:52,840 You wrote about him, our guy from the WHL. We've talked about 178 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:56,919 him a lot over the years, especially in his draft year and the Seattle 179 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:01,480 right winger. Fercus has taken it up another level over two points per game 180 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:07,000 in the WHL eighty one points and thirty nine games at last check, which 181 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,679 is a big step over his past two years. Eighty one points is five 182 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:18,440 more points than the second place team, the second place in the WHL. 183 00:13:18,519 --> 00:13:22,600 That's crazy. Some say he was this and not being part of the U 184 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:26,039 twenty team, Canada a little bit more scoring there. Again, Canada seems 185 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,720 to have been looking for a little more size. He used to be five 186 00:13:30,759 --> 00:13:33,519 to ten, but Victory we always that was the whole thing in his draft 187 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,840 year is he was too small, and that's why he had to be pushed 188 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,840 down right into the second round by Seattle and everybody's out. He's just a 189 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:43,320 little bit small. Now he's five to eleven, Victor, I think the 190 00:13:43,399 --> 00:13:46,039 questions are over. I think he's talling up now. He's going to be 191 00:13:46,039 --> 00:13:50,320 fine at five to eleven. I'm being a little sarcastic. The whole thing 192 00:13:50,039 --> 00:13:54,159 in my recollection in this draft year, the reason he was being pushed down 193 00:13:54,279 --> 00:13:56,279 was that maybe that could change a little bit. Now, what do you 194 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:03,919 think of Fercus' progress and where he is now? Yeah, he's still a 195 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:07,080 little bit undersized, for sure, but he has shown really tremendous growth in 196 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,399 a lot of areas of his game. He's still he had one of the 197 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,360 best shots that in his draft class, and his shot continues to be a 198 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:16,799 really strong weapon for him. He's able to get it off in a lot 199 00:14:16,799 --> 00:14:20,679 of different ways and different body positions in stride. That's all really good, 200 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,879 but I think he still needs to show more growth in other areas in particular, 201 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,200 he gets dominated physically still in the WHL, and he needs to be 202 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:35,360 able to show that he can leverage his strengths to get around that a little 203 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,320 bit better. Next season when he plays in the AHL. I think that's 204 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,080 going to be huge because that's going to be playing against even bigger, stronger 205 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:45,519 competition. I think the question with him is all about how does he what 206 00:14:45,559 --> 00:14:48,799 does he do away from the puck, and does he can he become more 207 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:52,399 of a dual threat because if he's just someone waiting there getting ready to take 208 00:14:52,399 --> 00:14:56,480 a shot, that's pretty easy to defend against. So he needs to be 209 00:14:56,519 --> 00:14:58,840 a little bit more dynamic and a little bit more of a dual threat, 210 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,720 which I think he can do. He just needs to. He just needs 211 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:05,919 to work and show that out a little bit more. He is. Yeah, 212 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:07,759 if I go through the article, the progression that you can see, 213 00:15:07,879 --> 00:15:15,240 especially in Mitch's charts, from a pretty unidimensional player to a really much more 214 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,639 well rounded player is pretty nice to see, pretty reassuring. In particular, 215 00:15:18,919 --> 00:15:22,480 some of his defensive metrics and impact on the game are all really good, 216 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:28,399 and Mitch has some very specific things of what he can do and what to 217 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,759 watch for in terms of what he's doing to see if he's making that next 218 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:37,799 jump. So there's some there's still some potential there. But I think part 219 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,720 of the worry with Purkos is that, especially in Seattle, they have a 220 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:43,720 lot of guys that they just treat as part of the bunch, no one 221 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:46,720 that they like to feature, and I think he might just fall into that, 222 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:50,440 which is unfortunate. But we'll see if he can be more of a 223 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,960 playmaker, be more translate those skills a little bit more chase. His model 224 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,440 has him at right in between a first and second line player, and he's 225 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,559 been there pretty much throughout his development, which is interesting to see. So 226 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,960 that's basically where Fercus is. He still has a lot of potential, but 227 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,799 he has to show more. And this unfortunately because of his birthday he's a 228 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:15,000 late April birthday, he couldn't be in the AHL already. But that's really 229 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:17,240 where he needs to be. He needs to show what he can do at 230 00:16:17,279 --> 00:16:21,320 the next level and then we can really take into account what's where he's at 231 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:26,240 and what his potential is. Man, I get it, I get what 232 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:30,840 you're saying, but like he's running up the score like a video game victor 233 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,919 I don't understand. Yeah, I guess, so we need to look a 234 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,799 little bit beyond the service numbers. But Fercus is been looking pretty darn good 235 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:44,159 out there. Now we're going to put him up against competition in the Mason 236 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:49,080 Blackpole Jaeger Fercus versus eat Zack Rosen of the Buffalo Sabers, I believe, 237 00:16:49,159 --> 00:16:56,080 and Furcus comes out with a smashing win seventy two to twenty eight percent, 238 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:03,759 very decisive victor. Is that an accurate result of these two gentlemen, Yeah, 239 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:07,799 I think so. I would definitely rather have focus here. As much 240 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:10,279 as I said, he has room to grow. Like you said, he 241 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:15,200 has shown a ton of scoring and potential at the WHL level, and I 242 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,920 think he is a better beat to be an impact player. His hockey prospecting 243 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,319 is actually even though all of this still only at twelve percent, so you 244 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:26,079 know, that's not a very high percentage in terms of being a star. 245 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:32,079 But Rosenne has basically been zero the last three years. So it's been tough 246 00:17:32,079 --> 00:17:37,519 for Rosanne. He's been playing at professionally for a very long time as a 247 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:41,359 young player, and so basically always playing against much bigger, stronger, older 248 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,160 competition and he's a pretty undersized guy too. In fact, there was a 249 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,880 really interesting story I think it was on EP Ringside about him and what he's 250 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,799 had to endure in Buffalo since coming over from Sweden and playing in the AHL 251 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,480 and just adapting to what's been going on while they played in Rochester but still 252 00:17:57,559 --> 00:18:02,359 in New York. So it's been a really tough adjustment for him for the 253 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,880 last couple of seasons. But he is looking a lot better now, and 254 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:10,680 in fact, in Mason's data, he looks much more like a top six 255 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:12,559 player. He looks like a kind of just over a second line player. 256 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:18,359 So kudos for Rosenne, but I still think that I would take Furcus very 257 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,359 clearly, and I'm not necessarily factoring this in, but the Buffalo top six 258 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:26,519 just looks so crowded, and I don't think he's a player that demands top 259 00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:30,319 six time. I think that his skills are good but not great, so 260 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:34,920 he's not going to be able to demand with his dynamic skill that he needs 261 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,279 to be a top sixers. He could be a more nice, depth scoring 262 00:18:38,799 --> 00:18:42,480 type of role on a good team, So that's more what I would expect 263 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,119 from ros En. He's looking more and more like a pro, but not 264 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:48,680 someone that you want to be super excited about in fantasy. But while you 265 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:52,400 flex him up and down from your miners, he should be somewhat interesting. 266 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:56,960 I just don't know that he's going to stick there. So overall, I 267 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,160 would definitely take Burcas here. But I would be like, if you find 268 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,559 someone who likes Fercus as much as much as Jesse does, then I would 269 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,160 say trade trade him to that person, because you might get a little bit 270 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,359 more for whatever, for what you think he's worth, don't trade him to 271 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:15,519 someone like me who's a little bit more skeptical. I believe I drafted him 272 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,880 in one or two places. We had him on our common team and traded 273 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:26,920 him away somewhere, so we both got experienced rostering this guy. But yeah, 274 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:32,880 it's a slow burn and we'll see what comes to pass with his development. 275 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,480 But good to know that is an accurate representation the people have spoken in 276 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:42,359 this time, they speak correctly. Next, we're going to talk about Hunter 277 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:49,359 Bristevitch Bristell Wits and you wrote about him on EP rings Side Vancouver defenceman. 278 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:55,880 This guy a twenty twenty three third round pick just last year a third round 279 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,160 pick, but now he is shooting up the rankings. He is all the 280 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,160 buzz, and he's stepped up his scoring for Kitchener this year sixty nine points 281 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:08,240 in forty five games for a d man, leading the team, and Kitchener 282 00:20:08,279 --> 00:20:12,920 is second in the overall OHL standings. He's doing what he's supposed to be 283 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,599 doing there and then some he's hotter than that Hansel. Right now, Ristovitch 284 00:20:18,279 --> 00:20:22,160 is basically the man victor and he has been getting a lot of the buzz. 285 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,880 We've been talking about him lately and how much buzz he's getting from Vancouver 286 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:32,400 fans. Of course, a strongly performing prospect in that system is always going 287 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,599 to have a little bit of extra juice in your fantasy league. But what 288 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,839 do you think is this the real thing? I think that the fact that 289 00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:45,640 they got him as a third rounder is incredible value, and that's an unmistakable 290 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,960 hit. I think he's he clearly is looking more and more like he's going 291 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:52,880 to be in NHL R. So you love to see that. In terms 292 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,359 of like how real is all of this, I'm not so sure about all 293 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:04,079 that because he said they are. Kitchener is absolutely running over teams and so 294 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,599 some of this is probably inflated, I would say, but he is a 295 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:14,519 really good player. He's really confident, and it looks like an amazing junior 296 00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:18,559 player. I think the question is how sustainable is this and how scalable is 297 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:22,720 this? To the NHHL that those are the two questions, and I'm not 298 00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:27,400 sure that the answer is yes to either of those questions. I think he's 299 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,240 probably going to trail off a little bit. He also was snubbed from the 300 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,799 US national team selection camp, and it's really sad too, because this was 301 00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:41,759 his only shot at it, because he's an older birth date, and there's 302 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:44,480 not much more he could have done. As you said, leaning the team 303 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:48,039 as a defenseman. In scoring, he's just been incredible. He's really confident 304 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:49,680 with a puck. He tries a lot of things. I think he's a 305 00:21:51,759 --> 00:21:55,319 he's really looking good out there. He has some deficiencies. Obviously, he's 306 00:21:55,319 --> 00:21:57,359 not the best defensively, but he's not like a train wreck or anything. 307 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,200 He just has a little bit of work to do. And because he's not 308 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,559 I wouldn't say he's like terribly undersized, but he's not the biggest guy and 309 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:10,160 he's not the most dynamic skater, but he's pretty good at you know, 310 00:22:10,519 --> 00:22:15,160 at all that he just has to learn how to be more of an all 311 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,720 around guy and not just all offense, which might be a little bit challenging 312 00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:22,720 in the EHL since that's what he's been pigeonholed as. But if you look 313 00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:29,200 at most of the models really like him. The in his PNHL looks like 314 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,359 ridiculous. It's like at a one hundred right in townel that's not going to 315 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:37,039 sustain. He's really bumped up his star potential on hockey prospecting. He more 316 00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:40,000 than doubled it in his D plus one season, which has been heard of 317 00:22:40,039 --> 00:22:42,319 that almost never happens. You know, that's impressive when that happens. The 318 00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:47,920 j Fresh top down hockey model is pretty lukewarm on him, just five percent 319 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,759 chance of being a star. But this Chase McCollum data has him actually, 320 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:56,640 it was pretty high on him last year, had him above a top pairing 321 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,160 type of player, and he's increased that he and more. He's like breaking 322 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,839 the graph in terms of how high his equivalence he is. I think that 323 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,599 the question the questions are like, you know, is he the type of 324 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:12,400 defenseman that demands top power play time at the NHL level and the way that 325 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,559 he goes about producing his points. The answer is probably not. Because he's 326 00:23:17,599 --> 00:23:21,359 really good in transition. He's really good at finding some of those teams. 327 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,200 He doesn't have the biggest shot, but a lot of it is like his 328 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:29,119 really good deception when he has time and space to really undress opponents and to 329 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,359 pick the best play. But when that gets squeezed down, he's not as 330 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,559 good at it. So that's going to continue to happen as he rises in 331 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:40,559 the levels HL NHL. He's gonna have less time, he's gonna have less 332 00:23:40,559 --> 00:23:42,240 space. Players are gonna be bigger and faster. So is he going to 333 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:47,039 continue to be able to leverage the skills he has against that? I'm not 334 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:52,880 so sure. So I'm yeah, I'm a little skeptical. And we can 335 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,720 advise what to do after we read the pole Jesse because we have one of 336 00:23:56,759 --> 00:24:00,920 those. Right, Oh my goodness, do we ever against Ryan Uko, 337 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,799 who I happened to know. Victor is a guy you like quite a bit, 338 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,839 and he was drafted two years earlier in the fourth round of twenty twenty 339 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:15,359 one by the Nashville Predators, and we put off go up against the Bruce 340 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:22,720 Davits and Hunter destroyed Ryan here Ryan Uko only acquiring twenty seven percent of the 341 00:24:22,799 --> 00:24:29,799 vote, just completely smashed in this competition. Is that a fair outcome between 342 00:24:29,799 --> 00:24:33,839 these two guys, Victor? Yeah? I think so. Ufko had a 343 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,359 really great It's been having a really great college career, and I think last 344 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,720 World Juniors was his coming out part. I think not a lot of people 345 00:24:40,839 --> 00:24:45,559 knew about Ufco, and he was great for USA in a more depth middle 346 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:49,279 role for that team. That was the Luke Hughes Show and that was appropriate. 347 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,640 But Co was really good with nine assists and one goal in seven games. 348 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,880 That's pretty great production all that. I think quite a few of them 349 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:02,279 came in that crazy bronze medal game against Sweden, but still he was really 350 00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:06,960 good the whole tournament, and at UMass he's been pretty great as well. 351 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:08,880 Last season. He had twenty four points in thirty two games this season up 352 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:14,599 to nineteen and twenty two, so he's producing really well in college. He's 353 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,160 a really late birthday May seventh. He's pretty much always been younger, much 354 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,079 younger than everybody, which is the reason he couldn't be in the HL this 355 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,880 season. So it'll be interesting to see how he transitions. I think that 356 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:33,279 he's pretty close to being nhlready, So in terms of like closeness you like, 357 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,000 I think that if you're a team who's ready to compete, you might 358 00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:41,480 be more interested in having Ufko on your team. But I think that in 359 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:44,599 terms of the poll, yeah, I would definitely take Hunter. For one 360 00:25:44,599 --> 00:25:47,839 thing, he plays for a team with a rabbit fan base, so you're 361 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:49,799 more likely to be able to trade him for more than he's worth, which 362 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:55,799 is always something that I think you should consider because Vancouver fans are very passionate, 363 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:00,720 and I do think that he's right now looks like pretty fantast in terms 364 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:04,319 of what he's doing. So I think that Bruce Evics he's not as far 365 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,480 down the funnel. So if you want to just consider what is the ultimate 366 00:26:07,599 --> 00:26:11,200 upside of these two players right now, I think Brustevks is higher just because 367 00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:15,680 he's not as far down the funnel, His equivalencies look higher. He looks 368 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,759 better at this stage, although look pretty great at this stage too. Maybe 369 00:26:19,759 --> 00:26:22,680 he didn't get as much fanfare, but yeah, I think that I would 370 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,880 take Brusteviks. But I think the bottom line here, though, Jesse, 371 00:26:26,079 --> 00:26:30,680 is that if you can find someone who thinks that Bruce Eviks is the next 372 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:37,599 coming of When Hughes, which he's not, then I would definitely trade him 373 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,079 to that person because if you can get a really high upside or at least 374 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:45,880 a super high floor guy, then that might be worth it. Because you're 375 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:52,599 talking here with brustevis about at least this year in the OHL and next year 376 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,119 he could be in the AHL. But he's probably got two or three years 377 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,000 until he's making an impact on the NHL team. And I don't like to 378 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:06,119 think about this too much in terms of in terms of who's there on the 379 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,319 team when he gets there. Quinn Hughes is there, Quinn Hughes isn't going 380 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:15,599 anywhere. But it's still something to think about in terms of how good can 381 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,400 Hunter be in terms of what's going on at the NHL level. He's not 382 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,440 going to displace for sure, top power play quarterback guy, so he might 383 00:27:22,519 --> 00:27:26,240 end just being a second fiddle kind of guy, which is a little bit 384 00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:32,920 concerning. Yes, that is a interesting case. We will see if Hunter 385 00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:37,480 is somebody you were able to cash out in leagues where you happen to get 386 00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:41,680 him before the price went sky high. Victor, those are the three guys 387 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,640 from up Brinks side that we're going to cover today. You've got some great 388 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,200 content there. People should keep going in and checking out. But right now, 389 00:27:49,519 --> 00:28:04,279 attention on deck. It's your admiral right after this all right, welcome 390 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:08,039 back everyone. I hope you enjoyed our ex gamers segment. We talked about 391 00:28:08,039 --> 00:28:12,000 some interesting players, but we have some more really interesting players to talk about 392 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:15,799 and to set up who we want to talk about, We're going to talk 393 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:22,000 about some Tidy trades and to do our Tidy take segments, we have to 394 00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:26,880 bring in our tidy Admiral Ryan, how are you doing, Buddy Attenchent? 395 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:32,200 Just trying to play on what Jesse left us with when he hopped off there 396 00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:36,240 and carry that a little bit forward here as we discuss a couple of really 397 00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:38,920 interesting trades that happened in the Tidy. But before we talk about those trades, 398 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,599 Victor, I want to just get your thoughts on what was an exciting 399 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:48,000 couple of weeks in the Tidy perhaps some of the most explosive trades in our 400 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:55,160 top division in Lord Stanley. And we have our newest manager in the Tidy 401 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,559 Lord Stanley Division to thank for that. Unfortunately, we had a manager that 402 00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:02,960 needed to step away, and we undertook a evaluation of who some of the 403 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,640 better managers were from last season from a points four standpoint, and so we 404 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,240 elevated a manager from Tier two to Tier one to take over this team which 405 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,400 was in last place. This manager is our friend Tim. Some of you 406 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,240 may know him as the manager of al Aya Frady's Broken Flow, which is 407 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:23,160 an excellent team name. And so yeah, Tim was very busy over the 408 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,640 past couple weeks making a couple of trades. A couple is maybe being a 409 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:32,680 bit generous, but certainly a lot of player movement in Tidy's Lord Stanley Division. 410 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,559 Victor, what did you make of all the excitement the past couple weeks. 411 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,559 I thought it was pretty awesome, And yeah, I agree like you 412 00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:41,640 said it, and we talked about it at the time behind the scenes. 413 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,640 I don't think it's something that you can for the top division. You can't 414 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,640 just bring anybody in. It has to be somewhat earned. And I love 415 00:29:51,079 --> 00:29:55,880 that we found someone who had a ton of points and basically could have earned 416 00:29:56,079 --> 00:30:00,000 promotion previously. And I also we talked to him and gave him the school 417 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,720 and said this is going to be tough, like this team is close to 418 00:30:03,799 --> 00:30:07,759 being relegated. He was a top team in my division in Gretzky and might 419 00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:14,359 have earned promotion on his own, but I think he was gonna move up, 420 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,160 So you know, this was a big decision for him to make, 421 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,759 to say, Okay, do I give up my carefully crafted team over two 422 00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:23,799 years to take on a bottom feeder in Lord Stanley. And to be fair, 423 00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:27,559 the previous manager may not have had as much time. It certainly wasn't 424 00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:33,079 a one to ten quality team, but it's just lack of time to manage 425 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:37,039 the team. So he did have some pieces to start with. But you're, 426 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:40,720 like you said, you're giving up a team that you have carefully manicured 427 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,680 to the point of being a top team in the division and then you have 428 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:47,960 to come over and take over and turn around this team. So just a 429 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:51,240 huge, huge undertaking for him, and we're so grateful that he did that. 430 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,920 Yeah, he definitely he was at the top of the division, but 431 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,720 the points for wasn't the highest, so it would have been close. I 432 00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:02,160 think that there's a pretty good chance he would have won, or he would 433 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,240 have made a really good chance. So he went from that to trying to 434 00:31:06,319 --> 00:31:08,759 save himself from relegation, because the way it works in the top division is 435 00:31:08,799 --> 00:31:15,119 the bottom four teams play each other in a round robin, and the top 436 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,200 team staves off relegation, the other three all go down, and he's gonna 437 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,640 be in that relegation Brackett almost for sure based on where the team that he 438 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,000 took over is right now. But he made a ton of moves and I 439 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:30,720 can't wait to fully dissect all of them. They're still ongoing. So I 440 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:33,880 love the fact that he was game to do this. Not a lot of 441 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,920 managers would have. I'm not sure that I would have because it's a large 442 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,200 undertaking, but we really appreciate him doing it. Yeah, and Victor, 443 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,400 we're gonna be inviting Tim onto the podcast once we get into the Fantasy playoffs. 444 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,559 We're gonna let the trade deadline happen, catch up on some of the 445 00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:53,400 backlog of trades and interesting stories. But once the playoffs are well in hand, 446 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,319 we're gonna invite Tim on and we're gonna have a round table discussion about 447 00:31:57,359 --> 00:32:02,119 his team, and just to give people an idea of the scope of the 448 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:07,240 player movement for Tim's team, since he took over near the middle of January. 449 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:13,279 Seven of the last eight trades in the Tidy Lord's Danley Division are because 450 00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:16,440 of Tim, and one features yours. Truly, we won't talk any more 451 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,839 about it right now, but I'm looking forward to talking with Tim about our 452 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,720 trade that I think will work out for both sides. But that's enough talking 453 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,160 talking about Tim for now. We'll have plenty of time to talk with him 454 00:32:29,559 --> 00:32:32,640 in the future. It's time to talk about some other trades that happened in 455 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,839 the Tier Dynasty League this week. And we're going to talk about two deals 456 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,920 and then that may not sound like a lot, and it's not, but 457 00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:44,559 when those two deals have six and seven moving pieces at once, then it 458 00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:47,319 becomes a lot to talk about, and a lot of really exciting young players 459 00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:51,799 and prospects are moving in these two deals as well. We're going to talk 460 00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:54,680 about a deal featuring hunter Bruce Stavitch, who we just talked about, or 461 00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:59,960 I should say that you and Jesse just talked about in the X Gamers SEGM, 462 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,119 and we'll have a deal that features him among other players. And we 463 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,200 also have, excitingly enough, the first trade in our Tidy Lidstrom division. 464 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,759 Now there have been two or three at the time of this recording since then, 465 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:17,039 but the first deal in Tidy Lidstrom, and our one hundred percent listeners 466 00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:22,599 who have listened to every segment of the Tidy Takes will remember that we have 467 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,319 been lamenting the fact that Lidstrom and Lord Stanley didn't have a whole lot of 468 00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:30,359 player movement, didn't have a whole lot of trades as people were still trying 469 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,039 to get to know their teams. And so finally we do have a deal 470 00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:37,039 from Tidy Lidstrom to discuss, which we will talk about after that, but 471 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:43,039 first we'll start with this Hunter Brustevitch deal. Again, lots of different elements 472 00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:46,599 to consider here, and the deal is between these two managers London Spider Knights, 473 00:33:46,599 --> 00:33:51,759 who we've talked about on the show before. Mike manages the London Spider 474 00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:55,400 Knights and we have John Reid Maser Reed, the manager of Maser Reid. 475 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,599 I should say, who is the other side of this deal. So let's 476 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,279 get into here, shall we. Mike and the London Spider Knights acquire goaltending 477 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,960 young player. I would say he's maybe not a prospect anymore, but still 478 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:14,159 a great young player. Spencer Knight and defenseman Eric Carlson from John for a 479 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,519 goalie prospect for the Chicago Blackhawks, Drew Gomeso, the aforementioned Bruce Stevitch, 480 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:27,079 Washington Capitals d Martin Fervari and the Vancouver prospect center winger Jonathan Lecrimachi and the 481 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:31,119 currently injured New York Rangers center Philip heatl Lots of moving pieces here. It's 482 00:34:31,119 --> 00:34:37,679 a great opportunity for US Victor to get your understanding of how you go through 483 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,800 these deals with lots of moving pieces. Before I let you jump right in 484 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,400 here, I want to just say what our tidy managers think about this deal. 485 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:50,800 And I'll just call back to the poll that Mason Black ran on Twitter 486 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:57,920 where we had Hunter Brucetevitch really outpacing Ryan Ufko in that comparison. In this 487 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,559 comparison, it's a little bit different. TI managers are leaning towards the Knight 488 00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:07,800 and Carlson side sixty nine percent, a nice majority leading towards that side. 489 00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:12,360 And then just a bit of context behind this trade here. You'll remember London 490 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,519 Spider Knights. They've been here before. We've talked about them. We talked 491 00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:20,159 about Mike acquiring Darnell Nurse and Braden Schen for Rasmus Sandy and and Logan Cooley. 492 00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:23,760 In last week's episode, He's got another win now defense piece in this 493 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:28,360 deal in Carlson, And here's what Mike has to say about the trade. 494 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,719 He feels it's a pretty straightforward consolidation trade with the goal of getting another high 495 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,960 end D piece. He feels that his window two win is this year and 496 00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:40,960 next year, and saw an opportunity to make a trade with John, who 497 00:35:42,079 --> 00:35:45,400 likely isn't sweating relegation but also won't be going for it this year. And 498 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:50,000 he considers the crop of prospects that he sent to be some of his middle 499 00:35:50,039 --> 00:35:53,360 tier guys who are all having strong seasons, and so he tried to put 500 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:58,559 together an offer that provided some floor in Faervari and Heatle as well as some 501 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,760 ceiling those three prospects for his trading partner. John agreed with that assessment, 502 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,360 saying that he is lower in the table and that he offered a lot of 503 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,599 youth and depth for Spencer Knight, who John says may never really make it 504 00:36:10,599 --> 00:36:15,119 in the NHL for personal reasons. Who knows about that, but he's been 505 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:20,239 in and out of the program this year. And he also mentioned that Carlson 506 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,679 won't be super valuable to him after this year as well, so two pieces 507 00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:27,239 that may not have value for him in the time. In the present time, 508 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,239 he says that he really likes Lecoramachi and that Cameso is a decent goaltending 509 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:36,280 prospect on a rebuilding team with Cotter Bdard, and the opportunity to acquire young 510 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,280 depth was one he could not pass up. And so what do we think 511 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,039 here, Victor? Is hard to know where to start. What I usually 512 00:36:44,039 --> 00:36:46,480 do in these scenarios is break the deal into its component pieces. So why 513 00:36:46,519 --> 00:36:50,480 don't we start with the goalies and then we can address the Carlson piece of 514 00:36:50,519 --> 00:36:52,960 this. The way I would think about this is who is the piece that 515 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,400 has added to Drew Cameso to make him the other side of a Spencer Knight 516 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,679 deal? And might it be brucet Evitch? Yeah, I think it might 517 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:06,679 be. That's a good way of raising it. It's sometimes useful to draw 518 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,320 comparables and try to see what fits. I'm not sure that's as easy to 519 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:16,119 do in this situation. Maybe Bruce Evicks is closer to the replacement for Carlson, 520 00:37:16,119 --> 00:37:19,320 although if he listened to the first segment. I'm not sure that I 521 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,079 buy that, but I'm gonna do this slightly differently and just look at the 522 00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:28,360 goalies first. And as John mentioned, Knight has upside, but we don't 523 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,559 really know where he's going to be. He might even be a number one, 524 00:37:32,039 --> 00:37:36,880 but so far things have been really rocky since he entered the league. 525 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,599 He's been in the player assistance program, he's had mental health issues and we 526 00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:45,079 wish them all the best. Right now, he's in the AHL and things 527 00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:49,400 are going okay. Surface wise, it doesn't look too amazing, but he's 528 00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:53,920 over nine hundred and he's basically been over nine hundred, say percentage his entire 529 00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:59,000 AHL time there. And even though that doesn't look so good, his expected 530 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,840 goals per goal conceal, which is like an expected goals model, does look 531 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:06,679 pretty good so far this season. Last season wasn't as good. And I 532 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:12,039 put in here the Hockey Prospecting chart for Spencer Night. It looks super solid. 533 00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:15,280 It's hard to imagine someone who looks this good in the model not be 534 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,920 at least a one bee in the league, so you have to imagine that, 535 00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:23,880 although we also have to take into account what's happening at the NHL level, 536 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:29,280 and slowly the goalie is a pretty good backup slash one b He's been 537 00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:35,079 totally compident that Florida Panthers are a good team. And we know that Bob 538 00:38:35,159 --> 00:38:38,119 has that massive contract, but it's only two more seasons, and as you 539 00:38:38,159 --> 00:38:42,400 get towards the end of a deal like that, it's not unreasonable to imagine 540 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,159 that there could be eating into that time a little bit or becoming more of 541 00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:47,840 a timeshare. Early on, you knew it wasn't going to happen, but 542 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,360 maybe it's going to happen a little bit more. So there's that you look 543 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,800 at Commisso it's a fun comparison actually, because the two were both at the 544 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,599 us NTDP, not at the same time, but they followed a similar trajectory 545 00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:02,320 and then went to the NC double A. Night was in the NHL a 546 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,639 little bit sooner than Comeso, who still hasn't made his debut, but followed 547 00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:13,360 that path of USHL, USNTDP to NC double A to HL NHL time, 548 00:39:14,039 --> 00:39:19,280 and early on their equivalencies actually looked pretty similar. Then, thing that bumped 549 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,559 up Spencer's was that he was in the NHL in his D plus three season 550 00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:25,639 and Commisso was in the NCAA for one more year and then has been in 551 00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:30,480 the AHL. So his percentage seems flat in the high twenties to low thirty 552 00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:34,960 percent, which isn't bad for a goalie, but it's certainly not super reassuring. 553 00:39:35,599 --> 00:39:37,800 The thing that's a little bit problematic for Cameso, who I do think 554 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:42,480 is probably the, if not the one of the best in the system. 555 00:39:42,559 --> 00:39:45,760 He's got some competition there. Adam Guyan, who they drafted this year as 556 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:52,719 an overager, wasn't is someone who has a pretty decent pedigree, even if 557 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,800 he didn't have the best supporting numbers because he played in the Slovaki twenty League 558 00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,239 and then in AHL and then in the USHL this year. He's good when 559 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,920 he plays internationally, but some of his other numbers don't look too reassuring. 560 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:08,320 I think Arvid Soderblom is actually pretty strong, and even Jackson Stauber, who 561 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,880 played last year hasn't played this year. But overall, I think goalies are 562 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,360 since they're so volatile. I think you could consider Comeso not that different from 563 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:22,639 Night and so the other pieces maybe help make up for Carlson. But as 564 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,159 John said, there isn't much more he was going to get from him for 565 00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:30,320 holding on. So you get some nice pieces and you see how they work 566 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,559 out. I would be a little bit concerned for the side acquiring Carlson just 567 00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:37,519 because Pittsburgh is fading fast in the playoff picture, and I'm not sure how 568 00:40:37,559 --> 00:40:40,920 that affects his play moving forward, even though he's been great. And I 569 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:46,320 think that overall the Carlson piece and even the Ferivari, we know what we're 570 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,559 getting from those guys, and it's strong production, or at least consistent production. 571 00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:54,840 Right now, we talked about a rousteviks above. I'm not sure that 572 00:40:55,039 --> 00:41:00,000 his value is what it might seem, but certainly as one of multiple pieces 573 00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:02,039 to hold on to and see what happens, I think is totally reasonable. 574 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,039 I think Hetel is someone who could have pretty sneaky value here because I think 575 00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:12,880 it's smart to acquire him. He's been nothing this year. He's had issues 576 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,920 in addition to being injured. Now I guess he came back and he got 577 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:21,039 injured at practice. I was really unfortunate, but he was really building his 578 00:41:21,119 --> 00:41:23,199 play last year, was improving a lot more time on ice, better play, 579 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:30,079 driving, and as good as we know that the Rangers are they have 580 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:36,119 Trocheck and Zabanajad that are both on the older side. So when is their 581 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,639 production going to start to tail off? And when are they going to look 582 00:41:38,679 --> 00:41:45,039 towards someone like Heatl to provide a little bit more of that play. They're 583 00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:46,960 both committed to for a long time, which is a bit of a problem. 584 00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:52,719 Heatle might go somewhere else potentially, or one of those guys could move 585 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,760 to the Wings. I like the acquisition of Heatle because I think the cost 586 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,639 of acquisition was really low at this point and it's not helping a competitive team 587 00:41:59,679 --> 00:42:02,239 at all right now, so why not. I think the last one, 588 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:07,880 though, that's really interesting is Lekhara Maki because he is someone who I think 589 00:42:08,039 --> 00:42:14,840 people value very differently, and he won the World Junior Championship MVP. As 590 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,559 some people might know, I was pretty vocal that I did not agree with 591 00:42:19,599 --> 00:42:23,800 that sentiment at all. I think that he scored seven goals, and there's 592 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,559 a lot to be said about that. Some of them were big goals, 593 00:42:27,599 --> 00:42:31,840 important goals, and he contributes that he is a goal scorer and when he 594 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:36,280 wasn't scoring goals the last couple of years for Drew Gardens, it was really 595 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:43,119 problematic, and the last two seasons he had ten points in over fifty games 596 00:42:43,159 --> 00:42:45,800 in the SHL ten goals, which is not very good for a goal scorer. 597 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,519 This season, he already has ten and thirty goals, so he's improved 598 00:42:49,559 --> 00:42:52,079 that a lot. But I think the bigger question for Lakhara Maaki is what 599 00:42:52,119 --> 00:42:55,440 does he do when he's not scoring? And I think the answer is really 600 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,519 not much, which is a huge problem for me. If you look at 601 00:42:59,519 --> 00:43:04,320 his tracking data from Mitch Brown, his overall scores only a fifty nine, 602 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,360 his defense is a twenty four, and his transition is forty five. Basically, 603 00:43:08,519 --> 00:43:13,239 he shoots a lot and his expected goals are better than average. That's 604 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,239 the kind of player you get. His impact on the game is not as 605 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:21,199 amazing as you might think, and in the SHL so far this season it's 606 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,000 really not good. His transition play and defense have been pretty poor, even 607 00:43:24,039 --> 00:43:28,199 though his expected goals are high. So I know some people will say I 608 00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,360 only care about offense his fantasy, I only care if he scores goals, 609 00:43:30,599 --> 00:43:35,840 but we all know that the coach and other things are going to play into 610 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,199 that too, not just if he can score goals. Can he play defense, 611 00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:40,199 Can he play away from the puck? Can he get himself open? 612 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,679 And I have real questions about that. I'm not sure that he can. 613 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,519 In fact, I was talking to a scout who asked me not to name 614 00:43:47,599 --> 00:43:51,719 who it was, but they said they continue to see him as a complete 615 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:57,800 bust. And that is alarming, especially when he that was this year, 616 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,440 when he was when he's having a good goal scoring season. At the best 617 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,360 of times, he's scoring goals and not doing much else. At the worst 618 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,760 of times, he's doing absolutely nothing to help you. And that is problematic. 619 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,400 So you look at his hockey prospecting and he's a nine percent chance of 620 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,840 being a star, even with his massive increase in scoring this season in the 621 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:20,440 SHL. That's not very good. His comps are like Riley Smith basically is 622 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,960 who is a reasonable comp for Jonathan LACARAMACKI. That is not very reassuring. 623 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:30,679 The Chase McCollum data has him as probably a top middle to top six player 624 00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:34,239 in the NHL, the Pnachili has bumped up a little bit to about a 625 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,320 sixty point player, and the j Fresh model seven percent chance of being a 626 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:44,119 star. So this is why I don't have any shares of Jonathan Lacaramackie, 627 00:44:45,119 --> 00:44:49,440 but I also I wouldn't blame you for having them because it's tantalizing. He 628 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,000 can score goals. I get it, there's still a world where he's valuable. 629 00:44:52,519 --> 00:44:55,559 He can put up thirty plus goals. Even if he only puts up 630 00:44:55,599 --> 00:45:00,920 fifty fifty points with thirty goals, that's still something. It's just not the 631 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,880 kind of player that I want to bet on. All of that being said, 632 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:07,000 Ryan, I think I heavily lean towards the Carlson side just because that 633 00:45:07,159 --> 00:45:12,519 is the most known commodity and it's something that should help right now, and 634 00:45:12,559 --> 00:45:15,039 there's not a lot of questions about it. But I think overall you can 635 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,320 see this is pretty even because there's some decent pieces on the other side that 636 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:22,719 I think could become could really become something. What do you think? Yeah, 637 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,599 as usual, I think I agree with most of your points here. 638 00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:29,440 I'll start with Leka Remaki. I totally have seen him as this kind of 639 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:34,159 player. He's either his ceiling is certainly top line winger, and especially in 640 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,199 Vancouver, you know they're going to be moving out some big wing contracts over 641 00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:40,800 the next couple of years. You imagine Kuzmenko probably doesn't stick around. You 642 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:45,719 imagine Garland probably goes out the door. You know, who knows what's going 643 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,599 to happen with their Russian wingers and Hoglander and Pod Coles. And but I 644 00:45:49,639 --> 00:45:52,159 think there could be a spot for Leker Remaki and if not looking great for 645 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,559 Peterson re signing in Vancouver. But if he sticks around, you're gonna want 646 00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:00,760 whoever's playing with him. And so I guess if you have a ceiling of 647 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:07,519 top line forward and a floor of nothing, it's hard to make that evaluation. 648 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,519 And so I think I'll just stick him in the middle and say I 649 00:46:09,559 --> 00:46:14,199 expect him to be a middle six producer. And if you get Riley Smith 650 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,880 and a deal for Carlson a night here, I guess you're pretty happy if 651 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:21,039 you're John, and I agree, the best player in this deal right now 652 00:46:21,079 --> 00:46:24,719 is Carlson. That window could be closing very quickly. We'll see what happens 653 00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:30,480 there and what Dubas decides to do with that team as they as they continue 654 00:46:30,519 --> 00:46:35,239 to adjust around Crosby's timeline here. But yeah, I think I agree with 655 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,679 you. I'll lean towards the Carlson side and If I'm John and I don't 656 00:46:37,679 --> 00:46:40,840 have any use for these two players, which is clearly the case here, 657 00:46:42,159 --> 00:46:45,079 I would probably be happy to come out of that deal with a few potential 658 00:46:45,159 --> 00:46:50,760 second liners in Heatl and Lekramaki, and a potential bottom of the lineup scoring 659 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,599 d in Brucetevitch and a tandem Goaliean Kameso. I think it's probably the best 660 00:46:54,639 --> 00:46:59,039 you can expect to do with players you're not gonna have any use for. 661 00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:04,199 So job by both managers, and good job on both sides here. Next 662 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,079 we do as as promised, we have the opportunity to talk about a division 663 00:47:07,119 --> 00:47:10,920 we haven't really mentioned all that much yet. This would be a great place 664 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,360 for Jesse to add that sound drop of Gary Bettman saying we have a trade 665 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:20,119 to announce. So Tidy Lidstrom has started wheeling and dealing. It's a bit 666 00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:22,159 of a blockbuster here, especially where the prospects are concerned. If we saw 667 00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:27,119 this trade in the NHL, the X machine would freak out. We have 668 00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:34,079 Michael Tower, a acquiring right winger, Jack Quinn, defenseman bowen Byrom and 669 00:47:34,639 --> 00:47:40,239 multi forward positional Kent Johnson. Great asset there to have at every position from 670 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:45,320 the Belleville Bulls for right winger Brian Rust, defender Shay Theodore, and winger 671 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:50,480 Tyler Bertuzzi. So this is a clear one for one, three for three 672 00:47:50,599 --> 00:47:53,519 deal and you can analyze these players back to back. Before we get into 673 00:47:53,559 --> 00:47:58,599 that, we'll talk about our tidy managers who see this as a relatively even 674 00:47:58,639 --> 00:48:02,960 trade, most of them voting even fifty nine percent, with people leaning more 675 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,199 towards the young player's side, as is to be expected in our Fantasy Hockey 676 00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:12,920 Life community. We heard only from Josh for this trade. Eichel Tower. 677 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,599 If you're listening it turned on your Discord message requests and you'll see a couple 678 00:48:15,639 --> 00:48:20,400 of messages from me. But we'll hear what Josh has to say here, 679 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,679 and Josh says that he's trying to win now and get promoted. That's his 680 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,599 goal. He believes he has a pretty strong team and is now looking ahead 681 00:48:27,599 --> 00:48:30,760 to the playoffs. Having a solid crop of point getting d is important to 682 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,920 Josh with the scoring system the way it is, and I tend to agree 683 00:48:35,559 --> 00:48:38,360 Josh tried to prioritize that in a draft, but with Dougie Hamilton's power play 684 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:43,079 role diminishing due to Luke Hughes and his injury possibly holding him out for the 685 00:48:43,119 --> 00:48:47,320 season. He wanted to acquire another top end d man. Byron hasn't panned 686 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,599 out quite the way he had hoped this year, but he's a good trade 687 00:48:50,639 --> 00:48:53,119 chip for someone like Michael Tower, who is lower in the standings and will 688 00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:59,199 likely be staying in Lidstrom next year. Obviously, there's some risk acquiring Theodore 689 00:48:59,199 --> 00:49:01,400 with his injuries stack us, and as an owner of Theodore in many leagues, 690 00:49:01,599 --> 00:49:05,360 I can't help but agree. He's a great player when he's healthy, 691 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:10,199 and in this league he's dominating with seven Fantasy points per game. But yeah, 692 00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,599 the risk is certainly there, but he thought it was worth the risk. 693 00:49:14,079 --> 00:49:19,599 The initial offer here was Simon Holbstrom, Byram and Noah Kates for Theodore, 694 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,920 and then Eichel Tower counted. With the trade as it is here, 695 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:27,000 Josh figured he'd gets some more production out of Bertuzzi, Rust and Theodore this 696 00:49:27,119 --> 00:49:30,360 year than Johnson and Quinn and Byrom. So the way he sees it, 697 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,440 he's giving up three highly talented players that could certainly pop for Eichel Tower and 698 00:49:35,519 --> 00:49:38,840 help him get promoted. But ideally, if all goes well, Josh wall 699 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,880 be promoted and he won't have to worry about this team anymore. Good for 700 00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,880 both sides from his perspective. As Josh said Victor, this deals a little 701 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:50,239 more straightforward than the previous and with a three for three, we can contrast 702 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,159 and compare each pro with their equivalent veteran. The way I see it is 703 00:49:53,280 --> 00:50:00,280 it's Quinn versus Rust Byron versus Theodore and Kent Johnson versus Tyler Bertuzzi, and 704 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,599 you have your pick where you want to start. Yeah, this is great. 705 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,360 I love the clarity too, and the way you laid it out. 706 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:12,400 I think that most of these the players on Josh's side, who he's getting 707 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,840 we know a little bit. We know Rust is a pretty solid producer and 708 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:21,199 that positional scarcity at right wing is huge. Bertuzzi is right wing left wing. 709 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:27,280 But still I think that Russ being a much more consistent and better producer 710 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,719 is a really great get for someone competing. Bertuzzi has been pretty underwhelming. 711 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:36,960 He's thrust into maybe more of a depth role, but he has gotten some 712 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:40,000 pretty great deployment. He definitely sees time. But with the best players in 713 00:50:40,039 --> 00:50:45,119 Toronto, it just hasn't worked out in terms of the best point production from 714 00:50:45,159 --> 00:50:50,000 him, it's it's been unfortunate. Actually, his thirty six point pace I 715 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,480 think is well below what a lot of us would be expecting, especially with 716 00:50:54,400 --> 00:51:00,000 basically he's playing. He's playing almost seventy percent of his time with Tavares, 717 00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:04,760 Nilander or Marner, which I don't know how you don't score more than that 718 00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,400 with those three guys. On the one hand, you could say that's gonna 719 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,039 turn around and he's gonna he's gonna be able to score more. I know 720 00:51:10,159 --> 00:51:14,280 Josh is a Leafs fan too, if I'm not mistake mistaken, that might 721 00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,599 have factored into, like watching the game's a lot of knowing that he's just 722 00:51:16,639 --> 00:51:21,920 getting unlucky. Sometimes you see things like hitting the post or missing shots and 723 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,480 they don't register as well on the score sheet. And Ryan has something to 724 00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,599 say. I'm just gonna jump in here because many of I'm a huge Leafs 725 00:51:29,639 --> 00:51:31,360 fan. I never miss a game. I've watched every game this season, 726 00:51:31,639 --> 00:51:36,800 and let me just be the first to really say here, Tyler Bertuzzi has 727 00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,519 been an absolute disappointment from every way you could possibly look at it. Sheldon 728 00:51:40,559 --> 00:51:45,280 Keith is struggling to find a place for him in the lineup. I don't 729 00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:50,199 understand how you can play with the stars that you have on that team and 730 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,360 not put up any kind of worthwhile scoring numbers. And for a number of 731 00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,480 reasons, I'll be happy when this contract is done and he moves on to 732 00:51:57,519 --> 00:52:00,360 a new team. I don't and I actually don't think he Just looking at 733 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,360 his body language and looking at how he plays the game, it doesn't seem 734 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,719 like he really wants to be there. It has not been a great fit, 735 00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,519 and so Josh. If Josh is a least fan and he watched to 736 00:52:07,559 --> 00:52:10,760 Bertucci this season, I would be trying to get it from under him too 737 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,559 nice. I always appreciate that perspective. So yeah, those guys I think 738 00:52:16,079 --> 00:52:20,880 are somewhat known, but Theodore is the most known, and he's the best 739 00:52:21,519 --> 00:52:24,320 asset, at least from a now perspective in this deal by far. As 740 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:28,719 you mentioned, there's some questions about how when he's going to be in the 741 00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,599 lineup, but it seems like he'll be right in line for fantasy playoffs, 742 00:52:30,599 --> 00:52:35,079 which is great and that's all you really care about, even if he's injured. 743 00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:38,559 Now. I think the bigger question is what kind of magic beans did 744 00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:43,239 Eichel Tower get and I would say some good ones. Two of the three 745 00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,039 of these are some of my favorites. But we'll start with Quinn, who 746 00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:49,559 I've been skeptical about in the past, but I think he's won me over. 747 00:52:50,159 --> 00:52:52,480 I know the top six in Buffalo seems like it's going to be pretty 748 00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:57,400 crowded, but I think that Quinn is one of those who's going to demand 749 00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,280 a spot. And he's been up and down. He had that unfortunate injury, 750 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:04,559 so he's been out a long time and he came back initially good, 751 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:10,320 but it's been not amazing so far. But his a lot of his metrics, 752 00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:15,960 a lot of his analytical models show him as just It would be unlikely 753 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,000 if he wasn't a star producer, at least a first line, top of 754 00:53:19,039 --> 00:53:22,920 the lineup type of player, despite things that have gone sideways for him. 755 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,639 I think you have to take into account how Buffalo continues to do this thing 756 00:53:25,679 --> 00:53:30,760 where they start off looking really well and then they just spiral down into disappointments. 757 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,039 I don't think that's all his fault. I think he's been a bit 758 00:53:32,079 --> 00:53:35,480 of a victim of that, and he wasn't even there for the first part 759 00:53:35,519 --> 00:53:37,679 when they were really good can't benefit from that. But pretty much any model 760 00:53:37,679 --> 00:53:40,239 you look at, he looks like pretty much a first line, if not 761 00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:46,079 a definite top six player. But so far the underlyings haven't looked good in 762 00:53:46,159 --> 00:53:51,639 terms of his defensive play in particular this year and last year he was a 763 00:53:51,679 --> 00:53:54,159 little bit better across the board, but its powerplay impact hasn't been good. 764 00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:58,119 So I think that I could see why someone will want to get out from 765 00:53:58,159 --> 00:54:00,000 under Jack Quinn now. But I think long term, Jack Quinn it's going 766 00:54:00,079 --> 00:54:04,559 to be someone you're gonna want. And I think when he's fully healthy and 767 00:54:05,039 --> 00:54:07,719 the rest of the prospects mature in Buffalo, I think he's going to be 768 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,960 up there and he's going to be on the top power play and he's going 769 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:14,559 to be producing. So I love getting him. I think a lot of 770 00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:16,119 times this time of year, that's exactly what you want to do. You 771 00:54:16,159 --> 00:54:20,320 want to target players like this. They've been disappointing this year. The other 772 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,199 managers have no problem letting them go and you can really reap the benefits of 773 00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:28,679 their turnaround next year. And Bowen Byron might be one of these guys too. 774 00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,119 He's been a favorite of mine for a long time. I get the 775 00:54:31,159 --> 00:54:37,840 frustration, though, Man, he is frustrating to a times to roster because 776 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,519 I have him in several leagues too, and I watch him play, and 777 00:54:40,559 --> 00:54:45,119 I watched that Stanley Cup final that he was so important to the ABS in, 778 00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:49,480 and then you watch him sometimes on regular games and it's just is this 779 00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:53,159 even the same guy? What is happening? I don't understand. He's generally 780 00:54:53,199 --> 00:54:57,320 been good when he's healthy and given the opportunity, but that isn't always the 781 00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,199 case. And it also seems, and we've talked about this before, when 782 00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:05,239 players get more and more responsibility, it doesn't always go well. And I 783 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,760 think that's been the case for Byram. He's gotten I think a little bit 784 00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:15,400 overwhelmed with the increased responsibility that he's had. And you look at I put 785 00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:19,320 in the notes here the tracking data from Corey Schneider's All Three Zones project, 786 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:25,039 and it is not good. Like generally across the board offense passing, his 787 00:55:25,119 --> 00:55:29,320 zone entries are very good, but his exits and retrievals are a little bit 788 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,400 hit and miss. Some of his zone entry defense and for checking. All 789 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:37,800 in all, it's been pretty disappointing for Bowen Byram. One thing I did 790 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,079 find interesting is I was digging into this question because I was surprised by how 791 00:55:40,119 --> 00:55:45,320 bad some of these metrics in But since Bowen Biram has entered the league in 792 00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:52,119 terms of his individual expected goals per sixty across all defensemen in that time span, 793 00:55:52,199 --> 00:55:55,639 and I took out people who had played fewer than twelve hundred minutes because 794 00:55:55,639 --> 00:56:00,840 there were some real weird outliers in there. But Ryan, I not believe 795 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:02,639 who is at the top of the list. Does this surprise you? Are 796 00:56:02,679 --> 00:56:08,000 you looking at the notes? I am flabbergasted would be the word I think. 797 00:56:08,079 --> 00:56:10,360 And I'm just gonna I'm not gonna say that name yet, but I 798 00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:15,760 will say here's the top five minus the number one fifth, Zach Barinsky, 799 00:56:16,079 --> 00:56:21,760 fourth, Shay Theodore third, Roman Yosi, two Dougie Hamiltons. Who would 800 00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,440 you expect Victor to be at the top of that list? Personally, I 801 00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:29,440 would think one of two players, cal mccarr or Quinn Hughes. But I 802 00:56:29,599 --> 00:56:34,960 would be sadly mistaken. Why is that Victor? Because it's none other than 803 00:56:35,079 --> 00:56:42,400 Jacob McDonald. Who's that What's funny is when we had Shang Peng on and 804 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,039 we were talking way in the early part of the summer because the Sharks were 805 00:56:45,039 --> 00:56:47,159 so bad, and we were doing the deep breevers, like who's going to 806 00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:52,079 be the top power play on this terrible team, and he said it might 807 00:56:52,119 --> 00:56:54,239 be Jacob McDonald. He's actually been pretty decent in this role. And I 808 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:59,199 remember thinking, like, nah, come on, apparently he is decent in 809 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,239 this role because it's expected goals numbers are crazy good. But yeah, I 810 00:57:02,559 --> 00:57:07,039 was shocked. There's other names on this list lower down that are also reasonable. 811 00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:12,800 Montour, ek Blad, Bouchard, even Wallman, John Carlson, Alex 812 00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,599 Petangelo Carlson, all of these are somewhat reasonable. That's one of the few 813 00:57:15,639 --> 00:57:19,440 that is just a total head scratcher, and it's at the very top. 814 00:57:19,519 --> 00:57:22,480 I can't even I don't even see any other ones on this list that are 815 00:57:22,519 --> 00:57:24,559 really surprising. They're all maybe not the order I would have expected. But 816 00:57:25,079 --> 00:57:30,880 yeah, we've got mccarr, the aforementioned at ninth, We've got he's only 817 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:35,079 beaten up by montor k Blad, Shay and the five that we mentioned earlier, 818 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,239 and actually Quinn Hughes, who I think has been the best defenseman in 819 00:57:37,239 --> 00:57:40,840 the league. This year from a scoring standpoint, certainly not on this list. 820 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,960 Yeah, I think he's lower down, but I would have to scroll 821 00:57:45,079 --> 00:57:50,159 to find him. What is this? This is thirty one he is, 822 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:53,960 You're right, he's after Byram, who is forty fifth, So I have 823 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:58,599 to figure out where he is. But he's not there. But the reason 824 00:57:58,599 --> 00:58:00,880 I brought this up is that Adam that Bow and Byram is forty fifth on 825 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:08,039 this weird list. Mostly I would say top offensive producing defenseman except maybe Jacob 826 00:58:08,119 --> 00:58:13,960 McDonald and Adam Fox is right ahead of Bo Byron and Chris Letang is right 827 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,440 behind him, So it's a pretty interesting list. I think he clearly has 828 00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:20,639 the talent, but his metrics just do not look good this year. I 829 00:58:20,679 --> 00:58:23,719 don't know exactly what's going on. I know he was out with some injuries 830 00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:28,480 and he's had the constant injury problem, and I just don't know. But 831 00:58:28,599 --> 00:58:31,280 I still believe in the talent, and so if it means acquiring him and 832 00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,679 punting till next year and seeing what happens, I'm fine with that. I 833 00:58:35,679 --> 00:58:38,599 think that there could be some upside still. Yeah, Ed and I drafted 834 00:58:38,639 --> 00:58:44,079 Byron this year in Lord Stanley, and we drafted him It was an interesting 835 00:58:44,119 --> 00:58:49,239 situation when we drafted him because he had he was just under the game's played 836 00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,960 limit and so he qualified as a rookie technically. So he was taken in 837 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:57,440 our rookie draft very high, and we thought great, and people who have 838 00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,320 undertaken this draft and Tidy and two Dynasty would know that by the time you 839 00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:06,119 get down to pick twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, you're really 840 00:59:06,239 --> 00:59:10,320 just like replacement level producers there. You're looking for your bangers D. But 841 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,800 even the good ones are gone at that point. So we thought, oh, 842 00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,320 great, we'll just get We'll get a roster D with our first or 843 00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:21,199 second pick in Byram in the rookie draft, and we'll be laughing. And 844 00:59:21,519 --> 00:59:23,840 we haven't been laughing so much this year. We've been crying at points, 845 00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:30,760 certainly with Byron's production. But it should turn around. Yeah, it's been 846 00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:35,440 pretty disappointing, but we'll see the other guy. Kent Johnson one of my 847 00:59:35,519 --> 00:59:38,119 favorites. I wrote about how many peerings side when he was down with Cleveland, 848 00:59:38,239 --> 00:59:40,639 and when he initially returned he looked great, and I was like, 849 00:59:40,719 --> 00:59:44,280 ah, I pat myself on the back and then and then it hasn't looked 850 00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,880 so good since then. His production has actually tailed off quite a bit. 851 00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:52,159 But I think a lot large part of this is due to Columbus. It's 852 00:59:52,159 --> 00:59:57,880 really funny on Corey Schneider's data, he has one of these shot creation chance 853 00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,320 generation charts and it's usually the good, good and the bad, and you 854 01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:05,320 might get scored on by you're creating chances. And then actually he doesn't have 855 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:12,280 it labeled as bad. The bad quadrant just says San Jose because there is 856 01:00:12,679 --> 01:00:15,000 production is so bad. I thought that was hilarious. But anyways, Columbus 857 01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:20,079 is in the San Jose quadrant of not good, along with Chicago and actually 858 01:00:20,079 --> 01:00:24,880 some other interesting teams like the Islanders and Seattle, the Blues and Arizona. 859 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,239 A couple of those teams are somewhat competitive, and so that's interesting. But 860 01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,159 anyways, I think that part of this is team effect, no doubt about 861 01:00:32,159 --> 01:00:37,719 it. But Ken Johnson, his underlying metrics look bad still, so I'm 862 01:00:37,719 --> 01:00:40,719 a little bit worried. But all of the analytic projections show him as just 863 01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:45,559 a top line player, and I've watched a couple of the of his games 864 01:00:45,559 --> 01:00:47,920 and a lot of his shifts recently, somewhat painfully, But I still think 865 01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:52,559 that he has the offensive talent and he's still producing. He's making some really 866 01:00:52,639 --> 01:00:57,480 great plays. But it's hard when you're getting paved in, when your other 867 01:00:57,559 --> 01:01:00,559 lines are getting carved in and your lyne even to some extent too, to 868 01:01:00,599 --> 01:01:06,280 be so confident and create that create a lot of that offensive creativity. So 869 01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:07,880 in the end, Ryan, I think this is a perfect win here in 870 01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:12,760 dynasty, where you have some great win now pieces on one side and some 871 01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:16,920 potentially really great win later pieces. Is that how you see it? Yeah, 872 01:01:17,159 --> 01:01:20,920 when I first saw this trade, that's exactly how I looked at it. 873 01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,920 And if I may just comment on Johnson for a quick second, I 874 01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:28,360 think, like you said, I think a lot of this is the team 875 01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:34,079 effect. I think that Columbus they've had a rough year. It started before 876 01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:37,400 the season with all of the Babcock noise around the team, and then Babcock 877 01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:40,920 is out and they replace him with Pascal Vincent. I really do think that 878 01:01:42,039 --> 01:01:45,599 he may not be the right coach for this team, much as I've enjoyed 879 01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:49,360 his career to this point, and so I think, just to use that 880 01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:53,760 old Brian Burke quote, once the Columbus ownership can shovel out the burn, 881 01:01:54,079 --> 01:01:59,599 and the burn in this case being Kakalin and Vincent and anyone associated with the 882 01:01:59,599 --> 01:02:02,519 regime so far, they can start to show the horse, and the horse 883 01:02:02,519 --> 01:02:07,320 in this case is the great young players they have on that team, David 884 01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,800 YURICEK Kent Johnson, et cetera, et cetera. And so once we can 885 01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:15,119 get to the point where this team has a direction and has new leadership, 886 01:02:15,199 --> 01:02:21,639 I think that certainly we'll see some of these young players fantilly another one Johnson. 887 01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:23,719 I think we'll really start to see them pop. And so these players 888 01:02:23,719 --> 01:02:27,440 are not going to help you win right now. That's the genesis of this 889 01:02:27,519 --> 01:02:32,079 deal. Lots of great pedigree from these players coming back. And so I 890 01:02:32,119 --> 01:02:37,679 think it's a great deal for us to discuss in this context. And yeah, 891 01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:42,360 thank you to the managers for providing us with the opportunity to have such 892 01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:46,639 a nuanced and exciting conversation. Definitely, And I think that's a really good 893 01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:51,199 point about Columbus. And I think some people will say things like, oh, 894 01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,559 are they ever going to be good? And I would point somewhat tentatively 895 01:02:53,599 --> 01:02:58,280 to Arizona because we say the same things about them for a long time, 896 01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,400 and they are a really good team this year. If they've run into some 897 01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:06,920 tough matchups lately, but they had some they were acquiring some good prospects for 898 01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:08,679 a while and we thought, eh, maybe won't happen. Maybe it still 899 01:03:08,679 --> 01:03:12,400 won't happen in Columbus, but I think they have all the horses to do 900 01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:15,400 it, as you said, so I don't think it's unreasonable to put your 901 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,079 faith there, and Ken Johnson certainly has to be one of the top of 902 01:03:17,159 --> 01:03:22,320 that heat of the heap there. And I know we're not necessarily going to 903 01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,760 date this podcast too much, but an article was released today on The Score 904 01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:30,800 in Canada saying that Columbus is really interested in looking to move some of their 905 01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:37,280 veteran pieces like Patrick Lyone and Ivon Provarov. And so this is clearly I 906 01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:40,880 think Kakaalinin's last gas, but trying to salvage the partial rebuild that the team 907 01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:45,159 is going through right now. And we'll see who can't might even have to 908 01:03:45,199 --> 01:03:49,199 play with when the future, if if lion A is gone, if Provarov 909 01:03:49,239 --> 01:03:52,239 is gone, they don't have that kind of all around d who can get 910 01:03:52,239 --> 01:03:54,360 the puck up to the forwards. This team is going to look vastly different 911 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:58,320 I think over the next year or two than it does right now. And 912 01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:02,159 it has to because boyd they stick. Yeah they do. They're in the 913 01:04:02,159 --> 01:04:05,719 San Jose quadrant, so you know they're bad. Thanks so much Ryan for 914 01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:10,119 putting this all together, and thanks so much for the tidy managers for all 915 01:04:10,159 --> 01:04:14,239 of your insights. And definitely respond to Ryan's messages when he sends them to 916 01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:16,679 you so we can get all that content on here. And until next time, 917 01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:30,800 we look forward to your night. A reminder, our show is brought 918 01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,519 to you. I fan Tracks moved your leaks over to fan Tracks. Starting 919 01:04:33,559 --> 01:04:38,639 new leagus, ten different sports to play. They've got the most options for 920 01:04:38,679 --> 01:04:43,639 scoring, salaries, contracts, customizing your rookie eligibility. You can start up 921 01:04:43,679 --> 01:04:45,960 those new leagues right after the last season. It's anything you can think of, 922 01:04:46,519 --> 01:04:50,840 I bet you could do in fan Tracks. Fan Tracks HQ lots of 923 01:04:51,079 --> 01:04:57,079 fantasy content in there as well. There are articles in fantasy hockey, other 924 01:04:57,159 --> 01:05:01,559 fantasy sports. I've had a series of articles on off season dynasty baseball prep, 925 01:05:02,599 --> 01:05:05,719 which, yeah, I gotta get back to writing another one of those 926 01:05:05,719 --> 01:05:11,599 things here pretty soon, you know it takes a village and the FHL crew 927 01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:15,679 has a posse. There's the content curator, Kevin Adams who helps out with 928 01:05:15,719 --> 01:05:19,639 our show prep. Thank you Kevin, Ryan Downey you heard him today. 929 01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:24,519 He helps commission all those tidy leagues. That's a lot of work and we 930 01:05:24,719 --> 01:05:30,079 appreciate our tidy Admiral Jeremy v our lead scout scout in season is coming and 931 01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:34,039 Jeremy is HEARDing those cats, and some of you know who I'm talking about. 932 01:05:34,079 --> 01:05:40,360 We love our scouts. Jeremy keeps everything moving and in line. Jason 933 01:05:40,519 --> 01:05:45,280 helping with our prospect ranks. That part of the operations getting better and better. 934 01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:50,000 Brandon is our website guru and he's a scout and he's helping with prospect 935 01:05:50,039 --> 01:05:56,239 ranks and visualizations. Victor's stuff is getting all fancy. If you've got skills 936 01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,679 you'd like to lend a show, hit Victor up in the discord, email 937 01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:02,079 or Twitter. We're just to keep making FHL better for all you listeners. 938 01:06:02,639 --> 01:06:06,280 We're brought to you by Daber Hockey and Dabber Prospects. Victor is an editor 939 01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:12,000 over at Daber Prospects. You can follow his work there. The podcast Dabber 940 01:06:12,119 --> 01:06:19,119 Prospects Report is Victor and Peter Harling also talking fantasy hockey prospects. Be sure 941 01:06:19,159 --> 01:06:23,400 you check out Victor's articles at VP Ringside. He's part of the fantasy team 942 01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:28,159 with cliff Or, with Cam Robinson and Mike Clifford, both of them been 943 01:06:28,199 --> 01:06:31,039 on this show. I do a solo show called Dynasty Sports Life. I 944 01:06:31,079 --> 01:06:36,000 talk all the different Dynasty sports this week. I believe you will be listening 945 01:06:36,079 --> 01:06:42,800 to me answering listener questions about any of the sports. Lord knows what's going 946 01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:45,480 to happen. I don't know. I'm going to be asked the questions, 947 01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:48,079 so it's going to be very uncomfortable for me. So tune in on Tuesday 948 01:06:48,519 --> 01:06:54,880 and find out how bad that goes. Follow on X Victor Nunio twelve V 949 01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:59,920 I C to R and U N one two or me at Fan Hockey Life. 950 01:07:00,239 --> 01:07:04,000 Rate and review the podcast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever else you 951 01:07:04,079 --> 01:07:09,039 get podcasts. You could mark the little five star button. You could say 952 01:07:09,039 --> 01:07:13,320 a couple of kind words, and you could keep Victor and I juiced to 953 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,079 keep producing this content. It's not easy. You know, We've been doing 954 01:07:16,079 --> 01:07:20,559 this for a very long time. This is three hundred and fifteen episodes going 955 01:07:21,039 --> 01:07:27,360 strong as we get through this fantasy hockey season toward the playoffs. I hope 956 01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:30,400 you're excited to be living this fantasy hockey like