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But it is better sweet because a lot of the fantasy hockey leagues are coming
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man. I've got one league where me and Tony are going up against it.
It's the absolute finals. And then I've got one league where I had
to buy in my playoff start tomorrow. So who the heck can say?
It's uh, fantasy hockey is a non standard type of situation. But I
can't complain, can't complain to have survived intwo out of let's just say more
than two leagues. Yeah, that's the Deesel league that you ousted me in
the semis. That's a really tough league. I'm pretty sure you're going to
take it down. You guys. You have a few more players going than
he does and a nine point lead, so ubiqulous. But props to Tony
for a good one. And yeah, I'm pretty excited Jesse the We're going
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point lead with one game left. It's going to happen. It's crazy.
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oh this does work. Sometimes yeah, yeah, well one hundred and
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you and me to get into it. It's just you and Meat today talking
bashers. We love our bash. Right after this picture, Brandon, as
we like to say, Brandon is cool dude. He makes all kinds of
crazy tableau visualizations. And we had the idea today of talking about prospect bashers.
That's one of the things that people ask about lot because let's face it,
the stats you pull up on your basic websites that have miners' stats do
not include the bash. And we as fantasy hockey players, love the Bash.
We love the block shots and hits, and you and I luckily have
access to a little more advanced statistics from some paywalt sources, but it allows
us to be able to pull up a little bit more in the way of
what kind of statistics these guys are doing in those categories, so we might
be able to give people a little bit more insight on what these prospects are
going to do when they hit the NHL victor. You get a lot of
requests for BASH data on these guys, right, Oh yeah, I think
that's one of the hardest things to find with all these players is you hear
ranks, and most of the ranks and things that you hear are just based
on either an eye test or some sort of model that has an equivalency,
and you just don't know, Okay, this person may have a really high
upside, but in a lot of leagues that count peripherals, if you're scoring
a decent amount but don't have peripheral coverage, you're not worth that much.
So it really changes the value considerably based on the BASH and that's why we
focus on it. And yeah, people are always asking, yeah, between
these two, who would be better in my league? And it's what are
the settings? And then you know, then you can yes for sure.
So today we're going to rely on a couple of things. One is some
queries that we ran on stats behind the scenes for a couple of leagues.
And then also, as I said, Brandon and his wonderful visualizations, and
we're not going to go through every prospect obviously, and we're going to be
giving you a couple of surprising reseilves. We're not talking about the guys who
got into the pros already necessarily, not much of guys who've made NHL debuts.
More guys that you don't have a sample on allthough there's a couple of
guys who have made a cameo by now. But Victor, these are some
outliers that we have found in pulling some of the data. And I also,
by the way, apologize in advance because I foolishly requested I took requests
in the Patreon or in the discord Patreon channel and got a lot of requests.
And I don't know that many of aren't going to be covered today because
I figured out later that I had too many to deal with, but a
couple of them might get covered. In passing Victor. The first guy that
we need to come up with was a guy who just blew off the chart
when we got to the Brandon FHL Player Tools visualization, and that one is
up to you. Yeah, We're going to start with none other than Alexander
Nikishin, and he is a twenty twenty third round pick by the Carolina Hurricanes.
He's a pretty old birth date for his draft year. He's already twenty
two, with twenty three the start of next season, and he's two one
hundred and sixteen pounds six for big dude. And when they drafted him,
he wasn't really doing too much. He hadn't he played some KHL games,
but hadn't really scored a lot, so it was a bit surprising. But
then what happened after that is the stuff of legends, because he didn't do
too much in the season after that either. But then he really popped off
in the twenty twenty two to twenty three season when he went from Spartak Moskva
to scotsk and Pete and went from twelve points in forty six games to fifty
five points in sixty five games, and there were definitely some questions of Okay,
maybe this isn't maybe this is just an effect of him playing a really
good team. And so far this season he was named captain, so that's
interesting. And then he has fifty six points in sixty seven games, so
basically a repeat of what he did in the previous season. So he's pretty
incredible in terms of the points upside that it looks like it depends on what
model you look at, because the Fantasy or the Hot Hockey Prospect is a
little bit lower on him, just because he had several seasons of not really
doing anything and then he exploded after that, So his equivalency looks like just
seven percent chance of being a star. Travis Stanaheim is his best equivalent in
this model, but the PNH has him looking more like a point per game
player, which is also probably a bit unrealistic. And then you can also
look at our Fantasy Hockey Life player card and our list, and I can
tell you that he is the number one rated defenseman in my rank, so
we're pretty high on him. But I think the other reason to be really
high on him, that you can see very easily in his player card bash
is that his bash is elite. Not only does he shoot a ton,
but he hits a ton statistically more than just about anyone in the league.
And that's on a per sixty basis. And then keeping in mind that he's
playing I forget how much, but it's twenty two to twenty three, it's
a huge time on ice amount, and he actually blocks a decent amount too.
Scoring, hitting, shooting, blocking, it's all coming up roses for
Alexander Nikkeishin, so he's pretty fantastic. Unfortunately, the his KHL team was
upset in the playoffs, but he'll be back there next season. I think
that's always the question of what when it if he's going to be able to
come to North America. He's definitely going to be there next season and that's
the end of his contract. The hope is that he comes over after the
twenty four to twenty five season, and if he does, then people are
going to be very happy with his production because I'm sure he'll jump right into
the NHL and probably have pretty good numbers right away. Jesse, what do
you think? Yeah, that's why. What's wild to me, Victor is
just the shall I say, the politics of it. Because for a guy
who has been drafted in the NHL and possibly has an NHL future at twenty
two years old, to be named the captain of one of the glory franchise
of a KHL team, that's not normal, Victor. They usually bury those
guys, and that tells you something about the undeniability of the talent of Alexander
Nakisha. Maybe they're trying to get him to stay by naming him captain.
I don't know. There you go, there you go. Maybe that's it.
We're going league by league here. There was one the one KHL guy,
Nikishan, and there's one lega guy who just popped off the page to
me, so I'm going to cover him. That's Nico Houton, and I
think he's been covered a couple of times on the podcast because I love seeing
that name, and it's coming up once again. Six to twenty year old
right winger from Finland. He's over there playing Liga. He was mister Irrelevant
drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in twenty twenty one, because of course,
the Tampa Bay Lightning drafted a guy who is extremely useful. He spent twenty
twenty one twenty two in Everett of the WHL before he went back to Liga,
and he put up over a point per game, two points per game
in the playoffs, forty six points in fifty two games this year in Liga
as a twenty year old. That is some spectacular stuff right there. To
be doing that in Liga. He was the twenty twenty two twenty three Liga
Rookie of the Year he gets a lot of him which does fit with the
physical profile that he has, and as far as the hockey prospecting model he
comes in. The best like he come up with was Casperry Kapanan, which
might not be the most exciting of comparables, but nonetheless I think in terms
of a little bit of his size, a little bit of his pedigree,
a little bit of his star production, he's only got a two percent star
probability, but he's got any chiller probabilities, And like I said, I
think the bash is the bit that's going to be there, and combined with
the rising scoring talent, that is a good sign. Victor. Any thoughts
on Hughton in Yeah, he's one of the better prospects on a very terrible
prospect pool. I know that you've been helping a little bit with our ranks
that we're doing over at Dauber Prospects, and the Tampa prospect pool is just
really bereft of talent. But Hutinen is decent there. I wouldn't say he's
amazing, but he's certainly is looking good in a really low scoring league.
That's always I find that's so difficult with the finish league and We talked about
that when we had Chase McCollum on that low event leagues. That's a little
bit harder to know what's happening with the data because there can be more variability,
and so that's been the that's been an issue, I think with evaluating
huton in. But he certainly looks pretty good for what he can do,
which is hammer the puck. And if you just want him to have a
very kind of limited role and get in the right position to shoot and score,
then he can do that really well. And he can also hit some
people. But he's not going to be like a super good play driver or
if you ask him to do too much getting the puck into the zone and
setting it up and playmaking, he's not as good at that. But yeah,
in a very isolated situation, he can be really good. And yeah,
I definitely have have made thought that comparison with Kapenan. They're obviously different
players, but I think the upside is probably similar between those two for sure.
Yep. And now we go over to the leagues where I pulled a
little bit more data. I got a little bit more apples to apples,
and I actually filtered out and did the numbers to try to get the capture
of the guys who are at the top of the list. Victor you get
number one, and boy is he having a good season. Yeah. So
we're going to talk about Brennan Aufman and we actually I wrote about him for
Eper Ring Side. Really interesting case. If you want to read more about
him, you can look at that, but we're gonna focus on some of
the other things here. So six foot one hundred and eighty six pound left
wing, twenty twenty one, first round pick, sixteenth overall by the Rangers,
and definitely a bit of an odd development path, which I go into
a little bit in the article, because he was in the OHL, which
was affected by COVID. So he went over to Switzerland, had like pretty
good production, but it was like a third division league or second division.
Then he went back to Flint and tore it up in the OHL, and
he's so far this season and all of that was like hard to evaluate.
But then when you look at what he's done this year is really think what
matters, and that's in the AHL. He's been doing really amazingly forty five
points in sixty games for the Hartford wolf Pack of the AHL. That's tremendous
for your first AHL season. That's really ridiculous production. He was twenty for
most of this season. He turned twenty one in January, so he's still
very young. That young HL production tends to vote very well for future NHL
success, and yeah, he's been. He's near the top in terms of
average bash per points. This is one of the great tools that Brandon helped
set up for us, because I think that's always the question, right,
is Okay, this guy can score, but can he score relative or can
he bash relative to his points? Because we all know that the unicorns are
the Kuchuk's right, the guys who can score a lot and hit a lot
and do the whole bash thing. If you can do one of those things
but not the other, you're nowhere near as valuable as if you can do
both. And Aufman, I don't think it's going to be a huge NHL
scorer. I think he's going to score enough to make those the bash super
super valuable and so that's what's going to be what remains to be seen,
but so far in AHL. In the AHL, he has the profile of
someone who is like a fifty to sixty point player who hits An hits a
lot, and so that's really nice. He does not block very much.
He's more average for blocks, which is hard to find in the forward anyways.
But his hits and his shots are going to be huge. So I
know the hockey prospecting is a little low on him, and I think a
lot of that is just because his first two seasons were weird. There wasn't
really a good equivalency, and he was over in Switzerland the OHL. He
had barely had enough sample in the OHL. So for a lot of these
guys, you have to really step back and say, well, why does
it look so poor in this model, and if there are good reasons,
you can excuse that. So yeah, I'm pretty high on Brennan Mouthman.
My only concern is that they have another guy, Will Cooley, and Will
Cooley has been in the NHL already doing the Brennan Athman thing. That concerns
me little bit. And then they have this Matt Rempy guy who's just fighting
and hitting everybody's They have these guys that I think Authman has more skill than
those two guys, but they were lacking before a Cooley came around. In
Rempy, they were missing a guy that fit that role, and now they
have someone, so there's a little bit of concern. But I think Authman
can fill more of that tough guy role that also scores, whereas the other
two aren't doing that as much. So I'm still pretty hopeful for his progression.
Jesse. Yeah, Othman, one of the leaders in shots in the
AHL, has had three NHL games. Yeah, I still his season has
been excellent. Can he translate it? Who knows? As you said,
Victor, I've been writing a little bit for Dabber. I've been writing about
Nashville, and ironically enough or maybe not ironically, that's not irony. There
are a couple of big Bash prospects that I can cover today from HL Milwaukee,
and the first one, Jokim Kimmel, is really having himself a very
nice year. He is another one of these guys who's got a lot of
hits and he scores enough. Right, he is the first runner in twenty
twenty two. If you don't remember a nineteen year old right winger five to
eleven, one hundred and eighty three pounds from Finland thirty six points in his
first fifty six games. That was. That's the scoring that we're looking for.
If you can get him into the top six with hits, that is
something else. He scored four and five points at the World Juniors. It
was his third time in the World Juniors if you count that canceled truncated one.
And he's got a very similar profile statistically in terms of the hockey prospecting
model to Jimmy snug Rood. And we all love Jimmy Snuggarood. Right the
star probability for Kimmel is still at forty four percent right now, and he's
got a bunch of comparables. I'm trying to pick one that's maybe a little
bit more reasonable. In fact, he's got double the star probability that Snuggarhood
does at this point. Snuggarhood playing of course in the NCAA and tearing it
up and tore it up. Yeah basically yeah, so yeah, joke and
Kimmel I think is a little bit underrated. I don't think this guy's going
to come in and be an All Star, but he is. He's got
one hundred and twenty three shots, he's got more than a hit a game,
and I think he's probably gonna fit very well in Nashville once they make
some room for him. Yeah, definitely, he is someone who I think
has been really Yeah, Kamel is someone who's been really I think underappreciated for
a lot of his time. His LEGA scoring was really strong and then it
kind of dried up a little bit when he came over. But overall his
HL production has been tremendous. And Yeah, his BASH looks like incredible And
I love the movement that Nashville is putting on. They're empowering their youth and
they're coming through right now, so there might be an easy transition here.
They always talk about the retool as opposed to the rebuild, and it usually
doesn't work very well, you know, the retool. But with Kamel coming
and a scarf weight in the wings and they have some other prospects that are
pretty close, I think there's a chance that they could just retool on the
fly and be good for a while, and Kimmel will be part of that.
The guy can score, and he's looking pretty elite for BASH because it's
pretty solid across the board, block shots, hits. There isn't really one
of those that he doesn't do so well, so it's good to see.
All Right, let's talk about the next guy, and that is Nathan Goshe,
Gosher Ghashe. I think it's gochet He. So he's an interesting one
because I remember when they made this pick Anaheim at the end of the first
round in twenty twenty two. He was taken twenty second. Overall, there
were definitely some other guys on the board who seemed like they might be a
little bit better, but he had that very specific profile I think that they
were looking for as a very hard nosed, bruiser type forward. And he
played with Hockey Canada the U twenty teams and he represented them, which is
always a good feather in the cap. Although he wasn't scoring a whole lot,
he did score a fair amount in the queue. We've often talked about
how the Q sometimes has some inflated scoring, and that may be part of
it, because so far, I don't know that his scoring is going super
well in the professional level, because so far in the HL he has twenty
one points in sixty two games, but that isn't looking super well for the
high end score and his hockey prospecting has trended down to just three percent chance
of being a star, So I'm not so sure that he's going to be
the biggest scorer, but the question is it going to be just enough?
Because if he could get to the point where he's, you know, relevant,
if he could be like close to a fifty point guy, then the
bash is going to be incredible. Because his bash does look outstanding. He
doesn't shoot a whole lot, which is weird, but he hits and blocks
a ton. Actually, his blocks are even more impressive than his hits for
a forward, So that's looking really solid for Gachet. I'm just not sure
that he's going to be able to translate the scoring. So you might be
looking at a guy who just bangs a lot and you may be frustrated that
he isn't getting more points. But he was a first round pick, so
he probably will continue to get lots of opportunities and maybe there's some more scoring
that can translate. Maybe just being the tough guy on a really highly skilled
line, maybe he'll get into some more points that way. But I do
think he's probably more of a bottom six kind of guy that bangs a lot.
Jesse, Yeah, somebody's got to be a lower line banger for this
Anaheim Ducks team. We know we've got some of the big offensive talented players
for the team, and they're going to have to feel a full team.
That's how it works. Sometimes that's what you're drafting. It's not a failure
to get yourself a third or fourth line player or an NHL team. Next
is the guy who almost this was almost one of the one of the guys
who most inspired me to even be preparing for this episode. And it's not
because he's a bash Sure, he's a secret anti basher people. It's Zachary
le Hereue of the Yeah oh sorry Canada, sorry, sorry, French Canada,
of the Nashville Predators. I wrote him up for Dabber actually as well.
And here's the thing with LaRue. He is surprisingly light on hits.
You see his profile, you see the huge pims, the huge pims.
He's second in the AHL in penalty minutes, this guy. And he's scoring
a lot forty six points in his first fifty seven AHL games. That is
that is real good, folks, for a guy coming from the Cute and
making his debut in the AHL and having that kind of a scoring on again
a very good Milwaukee AHL team. But I think people look at him there
like is this guy, this is an automatic bruiser when he comes to the
NHL. But that's not true. He's only got thirty four hits in those
first fifty seven games only, so basically barely well, a little over half
a hit, little over half a block. That's pretty much. I ran
all the AHL skaters, I ran the entire AHL. That rate is about
smack in the middle of the AHL. So you can't really call him right
now a basher, and I think that the profile that he has is going
to track toward a middle to bottom six role in the NHL. Again,
dude gets pims like nobody's business, and they are largely fighting pims. This
is guy. This is the guy who's getting game as conducts and fighting.
He's got more pims than he has a games played by. When I say
second in the league, one hundred and sixty pims in actually it's up to
fifty nine games now, so we're talking two point seven pims a game.
That's insane. He's averaging more than a minor penalty per game. And if
you look at the way those are coming, they're coming in bunches. So
yeah, this is that's not encouraging folks. Very few hits and lots of
pims. So I'm just telling you, if you have one impression of mister
LaRue, maybe you ought to have a different one. Speaking of guys,
I'll let you comment on him and you'll notice that I gave you the next
guy, Victor. But at least you were talking about him on X,
so I know that you haven't forgotten him. Yeah, LaRue is interesting.
I remember when he was coming up too. There was a lot of is
this guy just a meathead who's just really physical? How much skill does he
have? That was always the question, and I think that we're seeing I'm
not sure that he has as much scoring ability as we would have thought.
And another guy from another tough guy from the queue, just like Ochet,
that didn't quite translate the scoring. I don't know. He is scoring a
fair amount though in the HL so far. Yeah, maybe we'll see maybe
he'll be able to translate that. But yeah, the pims are amazing.
But I do I like the point that you made that you put in your
Dauber prospects right up, that he isn't hitting as much as you would think,
really close to average. The blocks are pretty remarkable though, he's blocking
a ton you can see all this really nicely on the FHL player cards.
Well, really easy to see the difference between all of that. And it's
based on per sixty for the league, so that hopes this helps you.
It's not just based on like always getting a ton of ice time, No,
it's based on the time on ice. But yes, you gave me
the next one. And this is, yeah, definitely an interesting player,
and this is Logan may You Actually got asked to write about him quite often
and I pushed back because I didn't really want to. But he's making the
case that you have to. So let's talk about may you six foot three,
two hundred twelve pounds right shot d He's now twenty. He was drafted
by the Canadians in twenty twenty one, thirty first overall. Some of you
might remember that it was the end of the first round, it was the
last pick, and it was the zoom draft and picked up the entire air
out of the sales because everyone was having a good time. In fact,
I believe I can't remember if that was the year that Sharks picked right before
that and there was a lot of good feelings about the Wisblot pick, or
maybe I'm misremembering that, but when they made the Mayu pick, it kind
of stunned everybody. And if you don't remember what happened, Maye was was
basically convicted of secretly taking pictures of someone he had sexual relations with in Sweden
and then disseminated them. And anyways, he did admit to it, he
did apologize, there was some remorse, unlike the Mitchell Miller situation, which
was completely different, who's never really apologized or admitted to what he did.
So Mayu did was a little contrite and tried to move on from that and
hired people to help him improve himself, so there was some self reflection and
improvement there. His development was really weird. The reason he was in Sweden
is because the OHL shut down. That's why he was playing there during his
draft season. And anyways, he had told NHL teams not to draft him,
but we know that there was going to be a team take him on
day two if the Canadians hadn't taken him on day one. It was just
a little shocking that he went so early and so publicly. But anyways,
his OHL time when he came back to the OHL wasn't super great. In
twenty one twenty two, and then it was a little bit better in twenty
two to twenty three. But I think what's really impressed everyone so far is
that in twenty three, twenty four, playing his first league, first professional
hockey, he's doing pretty well in the HL forty three points in sixty six
games. He looks really strong, and not only the points scoring, but
he does have some bash to go with it. His shots are really the
best part. His hits are a bit average and his blocks are pretty low.
In fact, his whole some of his whole defensive game is a bit
of the issue there with him. But the points upside I think with May
was pretty high, and actually wrote about him for EP Ring Side, so
you can check that out. That just came out I think this week and
Haddi Kalakesh, who's a Dauber Prospects scout, he gave me a lot of
good insight on him in terms of his upside. Definitely looking like an NHL
are Definitely looking like someone who can score some points but probably isn't going to
have the biggest bash and kind of depends on his role, but it seems
more like second to third pairing with second power play duties, So maybe a
little less exciting for MYU. But I think for a long time he was
tracking like not an NHLer and he's definitely tracking one now, so you have
to like that. And maybe the shots are good enough that it, you
know, pull the rest of the bash into relevance, and maybe he'll get
hit by some bucks and the blocks will go up too, because they're pretty
low right now. What do you think, Jesse? Wow, Victor,
Yeah, you must be upset. You're asking, you're cheering for this guy
to be hit by pucks. What's up with that? But yeah, I
saw you posted some stuff and look it's undeniable. He's been performing and he
is going to be relevant. He is going to end up playing in Montreal.
Yeah, he's He is a legitimate talent and logo MAYU is somebody you're
gonna be talking about for a while. One last guy from the HL,
James malatest I saw he was actually picked up by our friend Kevin in the
Four Sport League today because Kevin is an unabashed fanboy of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
As it turns out, even though he didn't know anything about hockey last
year, he's a wild card pick. I believe in if you run a
report and seventy five percent of it makes sense and twenty five percent of it
doesn't, then you probably ran a pretty good report. And the thing with
Mala Testa of the Columbus Blue Jackets again a five night forward. He's got
twenty one points in fifty three AHL games and he's actually up with the Columbus
Blue Jackets now and fight fought Michael Carson at the tail end of his first
game, so he's already had an NHL fight. I one wonders if the
Bash combined with that, what that exactly is going to mean for the role
that he perceives for himself. But if you look at the Bash per sixty
in the AHL, he actually leads the way. And the thing is sometimes
you look and you're like, wow, Okay, he's some kind of a
journeyman. He's has been there forever and he's like a twenty six year old
from the AHL. No, he's not even twenty one yet, James Malatesta.
So even though he is a under the radar guy, maybe he's never
gonna be an All Star. Still, I would say that he is a
guy who's already shown something. He's definitely shown bash for days in the AHL,
even though he's only a fifth round pick of the Blue Jackets back in
twenty twenty one, and even for a small guy, he is already doing
He's not afraid to show his physicality obviously already in the NHL. Victor,
is this a guy who's been on your radar at all? And is there
any kind of a chance that in the chaos that is the future of the
Columbus Bluejackets, this guy could end up on the marraground or whatever that is,
finding himself a seat and hanging on to it. Yeah. Maybe,
I mean it's he has been on my radar because he was tearing up the
queue and I remember just thinking, okay, but let's see how he does
in the AHL. It's been good, but I think a little underwhelming.
I would say for the AHL like it's a good step, but I think
he needs to show a lot more in order to project his scoring to the
NHL. As a very undersized forward, I am surprised to see him hitting
so much. That is not something you typically expect from a smaller player.
But yeah, his hits are incredible. His shots are really good, and
the scoring, at least the going, I mean, twelve goals in fifty
three games is not amazing, but he's shown that he can score at this
level, which is nice. He especially for a smaller guy and a bit
of a late birthday. He's a late May birthday, so he may just
see another AHL season. Maybe he pops off next season, so I think
there's still hope, but I think the upside is low. His pin actually
has him at twenty seven even with this decent HL season, so it's not
amazing. But nonetheless he's a man of interest. Now picture, we're gonna
take a break, come back. We got some more guys to talk about.
Selfish, that's right, selfish, break it down, gap the fuck,
don't bat. He's still gonna be there. And you've got jump one,
taking coast to coast, talking before angles. You're still shot bad bounce.
That's a good breakaway. I'm getting bounced. Boys. We're back and
we've talked a few AHL prospects and now I ran my query on the dub
the WHL and a few guys floated to the top. The first guy,
Teryl Goldsmith, a twenty twenty three Arizona Coyotes pick, and everybody hates Arizona
Coyotes drafts, so let's say something nice. Let's have a moment for the
twenty twenty three Arizona Coyotes draft. And as it was now, we might
ask how much do you trust bash data from the DUB? I don't know,
but this guy with one hundred and fifty four hits, one hundred and
forty two blocks in one hundred and one shots and sixty games, that's some
good bash. That's some sweet stuff right there, folks six four, two
fifteen. One of those guys who you wonder did they get drafted because they're
so huge, But he is absolutely crushing it and hits and blocks pun intended
and the shots are not none. But and maybe that portends a little bit
questionably as far as the offensive role that he would play at another level.
He didn't score a whole bunch up in Prince Albert, but definitely the reputation
the scouting report on him does match. The stat line is a Terrell Goldsmith,
a guy Victor who you know, I think he's showing something. He's
not showing scoring, but he's showing a guy who maybe he will be a
low level. And again, if I didn't say he's a defenseman, maybe
he'll be the next Boroweki. Oh yeah, maybe could he be the next
Boroweki victor? Yeah? Sure, yeah, I guess so. Long time
senator defenseman, probably more well known for that. But yeah, I don't
really know much about Goldsmith. I think that maybe, as you mention it,
the hits and blocks are good. I don't really think that there's much
scoring there as Pinochilli is under twenty hasn't really shown too much. Yeah,
maybe just one of those pure bash guys. If it's worth holding a guy
like that until he gets he's got the size and the physicality to at least
get a look in the NHL, for sure, So if that's worth it
to hold on that long, otherwise he might be able to find someone like
that on the wire, So maybe it's not as exciting to go run out
and grab him. All right, let's move on to the next guy.
Carson. What's what he is? A twenty twenty four draft eligible prospects We're
going to talk about some of these guys. He's seventeen. He's going to
be not eighteen until May fourth, so definitely a bit young for this draft
class, currently sixty eighth on the consolidated rankings. So far this season,
he plays for the Calgary Hitman in the WHL. Sixty seven games, got
fifty points right split down the middle, goals and assists, so that's always
nice. In those sixty seven games, one hundred twenty six hits and two
hundred and fifty one shots, so that's pretty nice. In terms of the
Bash his scoring, the upside there remains to be seen a little bit.
He's looking more like close to a third rounder and his Hockey prospecting has him
more like a three percent chance of being a star, so not super exciting.
He's definitely seems like he's going to be more of a depth sort of
score. But the Bash could be really good, so if the scoring comes
along, it could be decent. One of the comps in the Hockey Prospecting
has him with Josh Anderson, and Anderson at times has done enough with his
BASH to be relevant. Not like a super amazing guy in your roster,
but someone who can provide some value. So that might be Carson Wetch if
it all works out. But you know, we'll certainly dig more into our
twenty twenty four stuff. Rankings and material a little bit later. But that's
a name to keep in mind. Carson, which we tsch. I think
now, yeah, I again, these are just names we're coming familiar with.
And I think I gave you a couple of the draft eligibles here,
even though they're extremely down ballot draft eligibles, but probably players that you'll at
least hear on the periphery of some conversations over the course of the summer.
Next up, Igor Sidorov, a twenty twenty three Anaheim Ducks third round pick.
A winger. He's a bellow Russan, a third year player in Saskatoon,
and he had fifty goals thirty eight assists for eighty eight points in sixty
six games. He is another shot heavy guy. I remember, sometimes the
bash is led by the shots, folks. That's sometimes that's where the batch
comes from. Is just shots for days. And this guy's fifty goals have
come on nearly six shots per game. That'll get you some bash. Baby,
if you're shooting six shots a game, it doesn't even matter what else
you're doing there to get your bash. So and Sidora, if you actually
look at his hits and blocks, if you look at his hits and blocks.
They're fairly minimal, folks. I'm not trying to claim that, but
if he is shooting like that, and who knows, he probably wouldn't be
allowed to shoot like that for an NHL club, but one never knows.
So he is another guy on the way from the WHL down to Anaheim,
and we will see his overall Mitch Brown data is pretty good ninety two overall,
not so much on defense, but pretty good on offense. Victor any
love for mister Sidorov, I think there's some love there, and he's been
someone that I think some people have been pretty excited about. Is a bit
more of a depth guy. But yeah, he's shown that his stock has
risen a little bit and he's got some scoring chops. I just really respect
what Anaheim does. They usually find some really good gems and they generally draft
really well. I'm not sure that they always develop them or they come to
fruition. Sometimes they try them or lose him an expansion like she Theodore,
but they generally know what they're doing, at least with defensemen. I'm not
sure their tracker is quite as good with forwards, but it tends to correlate
a little bit as well, So I think there's some hope there with Sittaroff.
His PNHL is looking a little less exciting, closer to a sixty point
player, but I think there's still some pretty good upside there. So yeah,
he's definitely one to keep an eye on. But the next guy to
keep an eye on is the most exciting and interesting, one of the most
exciting and interesting prospects in the twenty twenty four draft that I'm sure we are
going to talk a ton about, and that is Teja Ginla, who is
Jerome Aginla's son. I might as well just mention that. And he is
a really interesting profile because people were not even talking about him last year.
Went coming into the season, like they knew he was going to be eligible,
they knew he was Jermaginla's son, but it was like he wasn't that
exciting. He was playing for the Seattle Thunderbirds, who had a really deep
team and they didn't really have much room for him, and he did pretty
well, but not amazing because he didn't really have enough ice time. And
so far, he's probably the biggest riser in terms of who's gone up the
charts this draft season, He's really come a long way. He's consolidated right
now fourteen some I think some people are thinking he might even be inside the
top end, but I think the hen is the highest that I see him
on any of the rankings by Sportsnet. Some people have him still as a
late first rounder, which is what people were thinking coming in this season,
like second round or maybe late first. But he's really been on a tear
lately. So eighty four points sixty four games is what he's at so far.
They're already into the playoffs and he's so far as three points in two
games. He's playing for Kelowna this year, and that has been a huge
move for him, closer to home where the Aginlas are staying, and there's
I think that's helped a lot. And so far he's shown really well.
In Mitch Brown's tracking data, it's like overall ninety nine pretty much all blue
looks amazing offense, defense, transition. His hockey prospecting, it's currently nineteen
percent chance of being a star. But I think if you just look at
the back half of this league or this year, he looks even better.
So there's definitely some upside there with tij and I think the other thing that
makes him super exciting. The reason we're talking about him is that he does
have a bit of that, a bit of the bash to go along with
it. I don't know that it's going to be quite like his dad,
but the shooting is really high and the hits are average in terms of what
he's done so far, so there is some physicality. I think it's going
to be a little bit less than what his dad showed, but he is
looking like he has point per game upside, and if he can just be
a negative in terms of the bash, then I think that would be pretty
good. But he might be closer to average in terms of his hits and
a little bit lower on the blocks, but the hit but the goals and
assists should be really high. So I think be excited about Againla more than
you were at the beginning of the season. But I think definitely put into
context that he's not going to be the bacheler that his dad was. It
doesn't look like, at least at this point. Maybe that part of his
game will come to with a little bit more snarl. But yeah, that's
t Jesse. We'll definitely be talking about T's a few more times before the
draft coverage is completed for US. But he is the one guy who popped
in here who is a big name. Brazier Minton came up near the top
of the rankings for the WHL for bash. He is courts many of a
twenty twenty two Toronto selection six' to two centerman he debuted. He had
himself a cup of coffee at the Tim Hortons next to the Toronto Ice Arena,
which I would assume to be true had I ever been to either the
Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Stadium or he was captain of the Kamloops Blazers. Now
he's moved on to the Saskatoon Blades out there in the West. He has
had thirty six points in thirty eight points in thirty six games this year,
his fourth year in the WHL. He gets a hit every game. That's
where the Bash comes from, plus nearly five shots per game. Toronto has
already had a look at this guy, but he is definitely a guy in
that system. And getting a hit of a game that's certainly going to get
you some attention, and adding that many shots probably means it might mean you're
hogging the Puck a little bit out there, but who knows. Victor Fraser
Minton's been discussed on the show before, But is he a guy who you
think is going to come into the NHL with Bash? I think he certainly
will come into the NHL. That part seems pretty for sure. He's already
played some games and he looked not out of place there. He definitely he's
someone I got to see in person, which was when I went up to
Vancouver and saw them play Kamloops. He definitely is really good for the WHL
right now, and now playing for Saskatoon, he's getting to play for a
better team. He was the one man show over there on I think I
might say Coloonna. He was on Kamloops, there wasn't a ton of support.
So it's a little bit more there now with Saskatoon and they're in the
playoffs, so we'll have to see. It's always a little weird when you
go to a new team and his production dipped a little bit. But yeah,
I do think that he's certainly looking like he's going to be an NHLR.
But the question is what kind of role are they going to have for
them have for him there? In Toronto, because a guy like matthew NY's
already is established himself and looking really good. They got this Bobby McMahon guy,
they got Nick Robertson, they have some other guys that are knocking on
the door and ready. I think Minton is a little bit more flexible in
terms of how he can play and where you can slot him into the lineup,
which is nice. And his bash could make suit him a little bit
more for middle to bottom six role, which is probably where he should end
up anyways. But yeah, I think his bash is going to be pretty
nice. Even his blocks are closed at average, which is nice. So
I don't think that the scoring upside is huge from Minton. I think some
people were originally thinking that maybe he could be a big score, but I
think he's probably more of a fifty to sixty point guy in the NHL with
a pretty good bash. So that's something, but it's not like incredible,
right, all right. So let's move on to my next guy, and
that is Tanner Howe, who I know we've talked about over on the DPR
show. Tanner Howe is not related to Gordy or any of those hows.
Unfortunately, if you're wondering. I was, and he is not, so
maybe a bit disappointing. Maybe he'd have maybe to have a little bit more
fights or pymns. I don't know if he was relating to them. But
Tanner Howe is a twenty twenty four prospect. He's the captain of the Regina
Pats and he's currently number thirty six on the consolidator ranks, so looking like
a very early second round pack five to eleven hundred and eighty one pounds.
So far this season, he's got sixty eight game seventy seven points, almost
double the number of assists, so definitely more of a playmaker it seems.
And yeah, he's looking pretty strong, close to three shots per game and
two hits per game. If you look at his FHL player card, you
can see that his hits right out as a ten and his blocks are actually
really high too. So one of those weird forwards how that the hits on
the blocks are way better than the shots. Typically a lot of these guys,
at least some of the scorers, tend to shoot a bit more.
So that's interesting, especially because his Hockey prospecting has him at fourteen percent chance
of being a star, So there's some decent points upside there. It's not
like it's completely nil, which is nice. So I think that there's some
I think how has the opportunity to be that real physical, good bash guy
depending on where the points come, how they show up right now and the
pin Chilli's looking like around sixty points, which is a little bit low his
player card for Mitch Brown. His offense is average, his defense is a
little bit better, and his transition play is pretty good. So not sure
how much that offense is going to translate for how A lot remains to be
seen. And in the hockey prospecting model, he doesn't have some of the
best comps. He looks a little bit like Colin Wilson, who's definitely an
NHLer but more of an average producer with some good bash, So that might
be more what you're looking at. But there's some potential for how to really
develop and turn into more of a scorer in the professional ranks. So yeah,
do you think, Jesse, Yeah, I think we did it.
I think we've been through some of these guys. Again, apologies to all
of you who submitted extra names and we didn't make it there. It sounds
like this is an ongoing topic of interest, so who knows, Maybe we'll
find other ways to bring it up in the future. But Victor, that's
going to do it for our little discussion of some prospect bachers. Be right
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