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to be joined today by Stefan Rosner of The Hockey News to talk a little
New York Islanders. Stephan, how you doing, I'm doing great, Thanks
for having me. Hey, we're glad to have you. Glad to talk
a little bit of Isles. Out of curiosity, Stefan, because this is
what I do to myself. I went back and I looked at the roster
of the twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen New York Islanders. There are still seven
players on that roster who were on last year's team, and now that with
the loss of Josh Bailey, we're down to six. That's still freaking amazing
for a ten year lasting on the same franchise. Amazing continuity. This team
is very experienced, and they returned to the playoffs again last year for the
fourth time in five years, but bowed out to Round one to the second
place arguably second best regular season team in the NHL, the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Isles played very tough defensive hockey as usual franchise identity. There fifth fewest
goals against, the NHL's second best say percentage, the second fewest power play
points against. The offense a little more middle of the road, I guess
looking at this Aisles team in just in some are you expecting them to make
a run this year Stefan in the stacked Metro Division. Yeah, I think
you'll see the Islanders finishing a wildcard spot again. I just think with how
much we saw growth in terms of other teams like the Sabers or the Senators
taking strides. There's teams ready to crack against the playoffs that worn in before,
and there's teams like the Capitols and the Penguins that both missed last year,
they could miss again. I think the Islanders they did bring back mostly
the same team except for you add in a healthy Matt Bars. I'm gonna
get to the players in a little bit, healthy Matt Bars all the whole
year for bat there, the whole year angle, the other whole year.
Offense should be better. And when you have a guy like the es Throkening
goal, truly, anything's possible. And we've talked to multiple players today and
throughout the summer and they just have the same mind that we just got to
get in. And when you saw the Islanders go on those runs in the
bubbles the back to back years there to the Eastern Conference Finals, they just
had to get in. They snucked in one on these runs. Now,
they didn't get the ouldimate goal of winning a Stanley Cup, but I think
the pieces that they added could serve well if they can get past the first
second round in the playoffs. But again, it's gonna come down to getting
points earlier in the year and not losing to those lower ranked teams. I
think last year they lost both games to Arizona, so it was teams like
that where the Islanders fell and you wonder, okay, why did it take
any two games to get in? That's the reason why. So if the
Islanders could handle business against those weaker teams again, I still think they finished
in a wild hurt spot to get into the playoffs and they can go on
a run. But it's gonna be about beating those bad teams. And also
you have to play well against the good teams too. They sure do.
And as you mentioned, we're gonna go player by player, and we'll start
with the forwards. Brock Nelson is the first guy we're going to talk about,
and I guess Jesse and I slightly disrespected him. We thought he'd be
just over the top one hundred player. We had him on in one eleven,
one to sixteen. He finished as the fifty second best forward in fantasy
and we had him as a tier three guy and have bumped that up this
next year because he had a career year seventy five points was the best he's
had best in his previous career high last season fifty nine points in seventy two
games for a sixty seven point pace. He had thirty six goals, which
was really great. And pretty okay amount of bash block shots hits, but
seventeen power points wasn't too bad. Six years left at six million is pretty
decent for a cap league, you know, for a guy who does everything,
his defensive impact isn't so great. When you look at his ramplom charts,
he's a he's on the bottom fifteenth percent tyler, so but his offense
is pretty good. So, Steve Stephen, what do you think about Nelson?
Is he going to continue to get over a seventy point pace this season?
I think you get hit forty goals this year and I'll tell you why.
So obviously last couple of years he's really carried the offense thirty six goals
last year in the second half of the year. He was paired with Kyle
Palmery and Pier Ango who came over ready before the trade deadline, and that
line carried the offense to the rest of the season and the playoffs. And
I think, you know, Brock nothing at He scores goals. That's what
he does. And I think now with more linemans that could help set up
Heah Envall off the rush does a lot for that line, which he didn't
really have. Nelson had to pretty much do everything. So I think this
year could really be the year he gets the forty goals. And also again
it's just wise a healthy Kyle primary knows how to put the puck in the
back and then and I think Kyle being healthy on his wing, which we're
expecting that to get a case more goals for Paul Mary being set up by
Nelson, I think more points. So I think you're going to see Nelson
have a career this year. And it's funny he's on the other side of
thirty, but he keeps getting better and better. He hasn't trn to sign
up regressing just yet, so I think this could be the year where he
set his career. Has for us, Morgan finally reached to that forty goal
mark. Nice. You love to hear it. And we definitely have seen
some of these guys who hit late career peaks, and he seems like he
could be one of them. All Right, another career season. I like
it. Let's move on to the next guy, the newest edition be Horvat.
His season is a little bit complicated because of the trade, but just
and I thought of him as around the eightieth best forward and he was forty
seventh he had. He was roughly a twenty goal guy until he popped for
thirty last season and then he nearly hit forty this season, and so fifty
four points and forty nine games for Vancouver and then struggled a little bit on
the Island, but it was a small sample size, so it's hard to
say exactly, but he's been someone who's been really good for faceoff wins and
bashed so sixty seventh for block shots hit at his position. They signed with
that big contract eight years times eight point five, eight point two, eight
point five, so that's going to be a commitment for a long term.
We'll see how that ages. And looking at Horvat's underlyings, he's more average
than he excels at any one thing. But the offense is pretty decent and
he's someone who's turned the corner in terms of goal scoring out performing his expected
numbers, which is interesting to see. Was he if he can continue that?
So do you think Horvat is going to revert back to a sixty point
guy twenty goal guy in Long Island or is he going to continue to be
able to keep that goal scoring up in Long Island where sometimes offense seems like
it struggles a little bit. Yeah, for sure, Like we said when
he came over to the island, he had six games with map bars All
was supposed to be a dynamic duo for the rest of the year. Barzol
gets hurt. That kind of tune is everything horvat on the island Now.
I still think he'd be a thirty goal scorer. Again, a lot of
it has to do with Barzil. Barsol is playing on the wing for the
first time in his career as a full time winger, so that takes an
adjustment time. For sure. We know Huarback put the puck in the and
I think for him it's about starting off strong. If he gets off to
a slow start like we saw last year on the island, tough for Horback.
Again, he has a lot to proof to this fan base. I
think he's locked in long term, but I think he definitely could be a
thirty goal scorer. And again, the assists could rise if Barzel shoots more.
And I think both of them really are going to impact one another.
If Barsol has a good year, Horbet's gonna have a good year. If
Forrbett has a good year, Barsol is gonna have a good year, So
I think Quarback could definitely score thirty goals. I don't think he's a forty
goal scorer. Again, I think we saw in a weaker Vancouver Canucks team
where Warback just everything clicked in that first half. And like you said,
on the island, defensive play is pretty important. So you see a lot
of offensive players not die on the island, but you're not going to get
as many offensive chances and breaks, and they care more about defense and winning
those two games. So I think the thirty goals is certainly attainable. I
just don't think they'll see forty. But again, the assists, you can
rack up the assist as long as Barzil and whoever's playing on their wings pots
more goals than usual, which again those two together are very dynamics. I
think that certainly can happen. So let's talk about the other half of that
duo than Matt Barzal. He was very good last year in the time that
he had. Like you said, he season was marred by missing February twentieth
to April fourteenth with a lower body injury, and he only got in fifty
eight games. When he was on the ice, he had a very nice
point pace, fifty one points in those fifty seven. Barzil has never been
a huge peripherals guy, but he plays a positive offensive and defensive game.
According to the Evolving Hockey Advanced Metrics, his eight year extension kicks in this
year nine point one to five million dollars per Do you know this is the
highest AAV Lou Lamorello has ever signed a player two. It's not the most
total money because Lou signed Illya Kobalchuk once upon a time to the big deal,
but in terms of aa AAV, Matt Barzol is number one man.
Anyway, Do you expect Barzol to stay on the ice this year? He's
really only played the full season or not miss significant time once in the past
four years. And if so, what kind of a role in production are
you expecting from the young man? Yeah, I think I was doing.
You get a contract like that, you got to produce. So we haven't.
He had a great year's first year in the league, winning the call
there, we just haven't seen him get to that point now. He's never
had a guy like Horbat for a full year, so I think, yeah,
this is gonna be another huge year. Like I said, Qrvett's gonna
have a huge year if they if they stay healthy. Same thing with Barzol.
The biggest thing for him is the goal scoring. It could be a
playmaker and he'll do wonders for Horvet, but it's the problem is he's hesitant
to shoot a lot. He has a great shot. When he shoots,
he finds it back in the net. The problem is he doesn't shoot enough.
And I think off the rush. Now playing on the wing, I
met get more of those chances to shoot and just has to trust his shot
again. Fourteen goals last year and that was a good pace for him.
That was gonna be one of his better seasons than quite some time. I
think twenty goals certainly is attainable and should happen, but he definitely could rack
up. I think he gets a fifty assists. That'd be a up puss
for the Islanders. He's got to be someone I don't like. I don't
love this comparison, but I do use it. The batsman Odechkin. I
look at it as Barzl's that playmaker to a goal scorer, so you can't
relign him to score thirty with thirty five goals. However, when you have
a guy like Corvett coming down the rink, that should allow Barsol more time
in space and vice versus. I think for Barzol the biggest thing is getting
them to assists and setting Horvat up, because Horvat is that goal scorer on
that line and Lee. He had twenty eight goals twenty two assists. That's
a good typical anders Lee scoring line. One point five hits, two point
five shots a game, pretty good. He transition transitioned last year from playing
with brack Nielson and Anthony Bavilier to playing with Horvat after Horvat's arrival. In
Bavilia's departure, Lee consistently gets offensive deployment, and the Wowie shows that everybody
who skated with Lee the with or without you for at least one hundred minutes
at five on five significantly improved their expected goal right when they're on the ice
with ers Lee versus not on the ice with him. He was also a
stalwart on the power play. Is the captain going to stay healthy in that
role and keep up power play, good offensive play driving in the coming year?
Yeah, I do think We're going to see some regression and I don't
know if he's going to be a top six player for the Islanders this year.
I could. I can very much see him taking the exact freeze roll
in the third line along Zan Tajo, and that's a line that's focused definitely
on shutting down the opponent's best. So I think, again, twenty goals
would be great for Lee. I just think it's going to be a different
role, of different experience room. So I don't know if we're going to
see as much production point wise. Again, defensive prowess, playing in the
power play is still something he's probably gonna do and be that net front guy.
I just think it's gonna be a different role this year, So I
wouldn't expect that the season. Like we just to him, again, he
could start with Wharfin and Barzol and we could see how that goes. Like
you just said, when he's on the ice, of these guys, they
generate chances. He's a guy that plays and gets the puck in the corner,
feeds the point. He does set up some strong chances. I just
think we especially in the playoffs, we saw Lee Lee's hand likee coordination take
a dip a little bit in terms of what he could do in front of
goal, which limited his production. So yeah, so I think twenty goals
for lead would be pretty good this year, especially if he's playing a different
role of bottom six roll for the first time in quite some time. Let's
talk about the the two big p's, John Gabriel, Pajoe, Kyle Palm
Marry. There's a couple of players maybe to throw into a little arbitrary comparison
here, Pajo with forty points in seventy games last year, Paul Mary with
thirty three and fifty five games. Who you got for having the better season
in the year ahead, Pajo or Paul Mary. Yeah, So for talking
offense, is definitely pal Marray. I think we saw a second half of
last year after back to back and cushions in the first half. It was
unfortunately for Palmary, but we saw him finally play to the level that the
Islanders expected when they sign him to his contract, getting he's their best long
distance shooter, but he also presses in that hard produced his chances and rebounds
for Nelson. Whoever his linemates are. Yeah, I think offensively, if
Palmery could stay healthy. Now, training camps just started, Palmry's not ready.
We don't know what he's dealing with. He injured himself in the off
season. They don't know if he'll be ready for the first preseing game next
week. So that's a major question mark because again we know with people that
have h injuries, and I'm not saying this one is a head injury,
but when you have one or two, usually they happen often and you got
to be careful of that kind of stuff. So I think Palmary is definitely
the guy that should have a better offensive season than Pazo. But looking at
Paso, he is your shutdown center. He plays on the power play,
he plays on the penalty kill. I think he had occur high and assists
last year though, so it really depends on who the Islanders played with him.
If Paso plays with a guy like Wallstrom, who projecting to have a
breakout year and one of those guys that really needs to come through for this
team, I think you can see the assists rack up even more. Pao,
since his wrist injury a couple of years ago, haven't been able to
shoot the same way, so I think it's really limited his goal production.
But again that's this is the guy that I would say Pazo is more important
to the Islanders than Paul Mary just because of the role he plays. But
in terms of offensive production, the Islanders have high hopes for Kyle Palmira if
he's healthy, because that second line or whatever you want to call it,
with Engvall, Nelson and Palmary, like I said, really carried him and
Palmer was just as big a player as Nelson was. Yeah, definitely nice.
So the next guy I want to ask you about is Oliver Walstrom,
and just thinking about guys who maybe could take another step or have room for
improvement. I know some of the underlyings have really shown that Walstrom seems like
he's really good, and there's limited sample size and maybe he deserves more ice
time. For whatever reason, he hasn't really gotten in. He continues to
be around a twelve minute guy. He has had two seasons where he's close
to forty point pace, but hasn't quite gotten there. He's also had the
previous season with twenty seven point pace. He basically looks good in rates but
has never really translated that is he going to get that opportunity? Is he
finally going to be able to break through. What do you think Oliver Walstrom
has the store for this season and maybe even beyond that. Yeah, that's
really up to him. I think under Barry Trotz he really struggled to grasp
how to play a two hundred foot game. And I think under Lane Lambert
last year and Layne's first year as coach, before Walston suffered in twenty ACL
or whatever an ACL injury that he had, he was finally showing that he
was a power forward. He wasn't just a one dimensional sniper, and I
think that bodes well for him this year. Again, I'm not sure where
he's going to start in the line up. He feels one hundred percent ready
to go. He said he focused so much on his nutritional like it's hurt.
This is the most exciting he's ever been to play. And I think
he just signed a one year deal this offseason. This is a proven year
for him. So if he's ever gonna show this organization that he could be
a top six player for them, now's the time. Now. Whether he's
playing along the side of Barzol, which I think he played twenty five games
with him last year, or he's playing along side passot. He's going to
be a goal score on whatever line he's on, and the whole product point
is obviously he's got to show off that shot and on the power play too.
The Islanders power play was third worst last year in the league, and
Walston missed a chunk of that. So I think for Wallstrom this is a
huge year for him, and I think again it's always important for guys like
this to start off strong and build on what he built on because again,
like you said, his numbers last year, we're pretty good. If he
stays healthy, he's having a career year. I think it's just him getting
on the ice and building that. But I think, yeah, for Walston,
it's made or break, and you want to see him rise to the
occasion. Yeah, I definitely hoping to see that, and that's good for
the forward. Let's move on to the defense. So Noahdopson is someone who
has finally broken out identical fifty two point pay season, which is pretty exciting.
He played nearly all eighty two in both seasons. Two shooting percentage was
pretty similar. Interesting that last season his total time on pretty good production.
Obviously, his blocks and shots were really good. A little low on the
hit total, but nineteen power play points for not the most dynamic or efficient
power play was pretty good. Fifty second at bash at his position is pretty
nice and in acap lee two years left at four million is golden for a
top power play defenseman. It does all that he does. When you look
at his underlyings, his defensive impacts are actually pretty poor. It's surprising,
especially with how good the Islanders try to be defensively. He's like the bottom
five to ten percent of the league defensively. Offensively pretty good. So I
guess is the time on ice deployment going to change or is he going to
continue to be a fifty point defenseman from here on out? What do you
think, Stephan So? I think the biggest thing is obviously, like you
talked about, his defensive play is pretty weak, and I think that's why
you show him get bottom pairing minutes last year. Now if he can improve
that, which the coaching staff has said that he's worked on that this offseason.
Again, he's a big guy, so he shouldn't have an issue boxing
out in front of making those smarter plays. But you talk about the point
production. I look back, he had no goals in the last ten games
of the season, and he went on a stretch during the year where he
went nineteen straight games at a goal and still produce that. So I think
the next step for him is just providing more consistent offense in terms of goal
production, because he has a shot, he's the guy in the power play
at the point. But I think it's just consistency because, like you said,
thirteen goals is good for what he did in the year before that.
He had a great year, but going twenty nine games that a goal and
two stretches of a pretty long time, that's a lot of time without production.
So I think for him, it's just providing more consistency and if he
could do that, he's going to have a career er goal production wise in
point production. But I think right now that's the big focus is doing it
at a consistent right, He's still young, he's twenty three years old,
and I think he's just going to get better and better. Let's talk about
Ryan Pulock. Victor and I used to be really enthused about mister Pulock's fantasy
prospects, but then no adoptson showed up, and as far as his role.
They've helped to find Pulock's role. Not the main offensive guy in this
team. It might have been miscast there. That's fine. Guy has a
point every three games. He has a shot and a half, a block
and a half, a hit and a half per game. That's very good
statistics for us fantasy types. We're not going to cover Adam Pellock separately here
just because we have a no Pellock plus Polock discussion rule. You can't talk
about it both anyway. One thing that surprises me, and one route to
bigger stats for my selfish purposes, would be can somebody hog some minutes on
this team? No defenseman on this team, as far as I can tell,
skates more than twenty one to thirty nine a night, which is really
low for the top defenseman on an NHL franchise. Well is going to get
paid for a while, so he's definitely going to have a rule, a
real life role. That's what's important for the Islanders. I get it.
What kind of expectations do you have for Polock in this coming year? Is
deployment, is scoring and just what he's going to do for the Islanders.
Yeah, I think we're at the point already since he's been to lead that
he's just not going to be the offensive guy the Islanders expected. I don't
think you watch him play, whether it's on the power play or just five
and five, he just struggles to hit the net. His SHOT's great,
he's got a very fast shot, it just doesn't hit the net. And
I think you saw him really show a new kind of puloc in the playoffs,
where it was about physicality and shutdown style. And that's when the Islanders
are going on their runs. Heuck and Pulock were shutting down the league's bets.
That's what they did, That's what they made their bread and butter with.
I just don't see Pulock bringing that offense. I don't think now on
the other side of thirty that Orever whatever his age is right now, but
he's close to that. It's just he's not going to automatically become this thirteen
to fourteen goal guy. So I think in terms of offensive production, you
can't expect most of them. Now. That being said, if he's not
going to produce offensively, he's, like you said, he's here for a
while. He's got to bring that defensive plan. I think, like we
saw in the playoffs. He was their best defenseman by far in terms of
physicality and that defensive zone play, and that takes a lot of pressure of
Pellic, who I know you don't want to discuss their tandem, and they
work really well together. I think if Dobson can do what he does,
they don't need Puluck. Like you said before, is Pulock was supposed to
be that guy and then Dobson came along. I think they'd be a major
issue if Dobson wasn't producing, Andy had Puloc. You're paying this money to
be this offensive guy not doing it. So I think Dobson definitely took a
lot of weight off Pulock's shoulders and historicals and I think, yeah, the
focus of Pulock's going to be his defensive zone play. I will try to
stop you from talking about Pelic Stepan. I'm just easily confused, that's all.
Yeah, there's important things to say about the Pelic. We should be
telling people about it. But regardless of the new kid in town, let's
talk about him. And if you want to talk more Pelic you can.
Alexander Romanov, though, is the new kid. He was a fairly prominent
prospect coming up in Montreal, and again he was a guy I had to
get the mind shift because defensive stats are where Romanov kind of come through.
Positive contributions, according again to the advanced metrics, are coming on the penalty
kill. His bash of the eighteenth best that his blocks plus shots plus hits,
he was the eighteenth highest in defenseman in NHL. That was great for
US fantasy types. A hit with over a shot, two hits, three
blocks a game, twenty two points in seventy six games, not bad at
all. He's still only twenty three and in the middle of a three year
bridge deal, so that's good news for the Islanders who have a lot of
aging contracts on their books. Are you expecting Romanov's role to evolve this year?
You talked about how Pulock is already he's fully baked at this point,
Maybe Romanov isn't. What are you expecting from the young man? Yeah?
First of I think he had a I don't know if he had a career
high influence las year, but he had two goals and twenty assists, so
for him that was pretty good. I think the assists go up depending on
who he plays with. I know last year he started with Dobbs and it
didn't go well at all and not got broken up. I think we coud
see him play with Dbpson this year around again. Romanov was one of those
guys in the second half alongside Pulock just figured it out again. Playing with
the veterans much easier than playing with a youngster that doesn't make those rootie mistakes
and things like that. But Romanov is a confident guy and you talked about
it and his defensive player the way he's able to knock people off the puck.
These huge hits just get the crowd going. That's where he makes his
money, and he'll be making more money in the future for sure. And
I think, yeah, defensive blocks on the penalty kill. He's a guy
that doesn't care about his body. He's gonna do whatever he has to do.
And he got hurt this last year and it limited his ability to be
ready for the playoff. I think he missed the last six games of the
regular season and then the first two playoff games. But now he say he's
one hundred percent healthy, he's ready to go. He's on the ice for
the first day of training camp, and yeah, this is a guy that
is I would play a Darius casprightis type on defense. He just levels people.
And I think for fantasy fans that those defensive that defensive categories. This
is a guy that can shine in those moments. Yeah, great stuff on
the d and we're just playing around. It's actually fun to hear the announcers
do the pull up pellock over scoring. Does it? Yeah, he confuses
everything all the time. Yeah, it doesn't tough. Yeah, I definitely
would too. Let's move on to the goalies, and the Islanders gave up
the nineteenth ranked goals two point seventy four expected goals sorry for sixty according to
Evolving Hockey, but only the third actual goals two point four to four.
And we know the reason why. It's the Iliosrocan Show. He finally has
arrived. I would say, we've been, you know, roll back the
show for several years ago. We were talking about the big Russian three with
just Shirkun and Si Sonof and I'm pretty sure at the time I said that
I liked Sorokn the best. I thought that Shastrika was maybe the most talented.
But this environment is so ripe for goalies, right, I mean you
have not only a good defensive environment, but you have an awesome goalie,
and so yeah, he was great. He played nearly triple the number of
starts that Varlamov had, and that has been slowly changing over time that they
were more split, and it was several years ago Varlamov was playing more.
But obviously he's getting older now and so we finally have seen the Ilias Crocan
arrive fifty one goal save above expected Delta Fenwick of one point ninety seven.
These numbers are quite frankly, just absurd. He has one year left at
four million, so for this year in a cap league, I don't know
that you could do better. And then he signed his eight year extension eight
point twenty five, which still might be pretty worth it depending on your league
setup. I don't really know what to ask other than are we just going
to continue to witness dominance by Sorokan and Vesna level play for the next I
don't know, eight, nine, ten years? What do you think about
this season and beyond? Yeah, this guy is just an absolute gamer,
right, his focus one save at a time. We know what happened in
the playoffs. A fluke Gold goes in. That's how the Islanders get eliminated
but then out in that spot without Serrokan. I had a chance to vote
last year, and obviously Conrad Daviers winning the Heart, no question about it.
But I gave my second vote to Srokean because you look at his numbers
and I'm not saying the Islanders would have been a lottery team if without Serrokin,
but there's no question he was their MVP carried and you just talked about
his advanced metrics are ridiculous and you watch him and it makes sense, and
I think he's going to get better because this defense is going to get better.
Now. Maybe the advantatistics in terms of goal safe, above expected,
all those things are going to go down because maybe they're not the Islanders aren't
allowing as many in tight, high danger chances as they do in the past,
because I think another year for Romano, another year for Dobson. You
look at Samuel Buld, who got a chance, another guy, he takes
another step, a healthy pelts back to the Islands. If they can't get
back to the way they played with Robin Leonard and goal where that was they
were the best defensive team in the sport that makes the goaltenders life so much
easier, allows them to focus more, not have to be not get exhausted
every night. And I think for Sorok and he'll benefit greatly from just stronger
defense. But again on the back of your mind, and that defense breaks
downs. Gonnakan's gonna probably make that say, whether it's Aman Russ or break
away things like that. He's just it's incredible to watch on a day to
day basis, but his advanced deats certainly back up exactly what we're seeing on
the ice. All right, Stephan, this has been some great stuff talking
about the Islanders. Why don't you let people know what they could do to
keep up with all the work you got going out there. Yeah, appreciate
it. Thanks for having me. You can follow me on Twitter at Stefan
Underscore Rosner. That's s T E f E and Underscore Rosner. I do
cover the Islanders for the Hockey News and I'm an independent correspondent for NHL dot
com, so you can definitely check me out there. Nice. Nice everybody,
keep up with Stephan's work and Stephan, good luck in following the Islanders
this year. Thank you so much. Wis that's good fired pas. Oh
my goodness, Cat, we grab Now it's your weekly goalie talk. But
Kat Silverman Cat's Instincts. Time again for another Cat's Instincts. With Kat Silverman
and Gold mag and New York Islanders Edition, we get a cup pretty decent
ones. The Islanders system in general is pretty depleted of talent in the skaters,
but I think they got some pretty decent goalie. It's nice to have
at least something decent to talk about in that pool, because otherwise it's difficult.
Actually, But we're going to start with Jacob Skaik, who was a
twenty eighteen third round pick by the Aisle. Six foot four, two hundred
and five pounds now twenty three years old. He's primarily been in Bridgeport of
the AHL the past three seasons and on the surface has not gone particularly well.
His save percentage there has been sub nine hundred basically every season he's been
there, and this past season he got the past couple he's had it closed
eight ninety six, eight ninety two. But when you look at his underlyings,
his save percent above expected is actually really high, which is the main
thing you would hope for a goalie. His equivalencies look the trending a little
bit down. He got up to forty two percent. Right now he's only
at twenty percent. He looks like Tommy Sallow in this model, who was
all so drafted by the Islanders and was an average starter. I don't know,
is that something we can hope from scaa Kat What do your instincts tell
us about him? I do think it's hilarious that a team that was being
manned by lu Lamorello and Mitch Korn has done a really good job of stockpiling
some young goaltenders and a really good job of stockpiling some really old skaters,
because that is two guys doing it exactly what they liked to do. So
good for that. But I didn't love Jacob Skyrik when he got drafted.
He was, if I remember correctly, he was a part of the duo
with Lucas Dostall, who was obviously with the Anaheim Ducks, a pair of
chat goaltenders who were highly touted. I liked Doshdall's game a little bit better
at the time. Skarek is more of a fast moving, high flying goaltender,
plays a little more like a like an alias Samsonov or a Peter Morazac
really like to get some movement in there, but to the point where I
almost wish he'd slow down and read the play a little bit better. And
that's tripping him up when he's in North America, and I've watched a couple
of his games and it's a little frustrating to watch just because I think he
still isn't slowing himself down. He isn't just adding that extra level of control
that if you combined that control with the agility and the speed and just the
sheer athleticism that he has in his game, he'd be top tier. He'd
be elite. And sometimes that's just some guys have more athleticism than control in
their toolkit, and that's fine, but that is what I think stops him
from being quite as promising as he could be. But that being said,
they don't need him to be that promising yet, because if the Rangers have
the best goaltender on Manhattan Island, on Egosias, Stricken Islanders have the second
best goaltender in the tri state area in Ilias Sarocan, who I think last
year was, if not the best young goaltender, one of the best young
goaltenders. It really just depending on which we you tuned into a game,
just waffled between Schisterkin and Sirrokin. For me, I think that's that gives
Skark some time to develop a little bit more and see if his style will
adapt to North America before they either move on or try and find another option.
Yeah, definitely good insights there, and yeah, love it's hard sometimes
to evaluate these teams where they have a long term set one a number one
with a bullet type of goalie with Sarrocan. But yeah, maybe he'll get
there as a backup or one B at some point. Another guy that's interesting
in their system. Tristan Lennox and Lenox was a twenty twenty one third round
pick sixty four and ninety six pounds. He's now twenty, just finished his
time in the OHL and he will turn pro. His stats in the OHL
were really not that impressive. That might have been just because he played for
Saginaw, but eight eight eighty eight in the last two seasons basically the same,
so neither great. When you look at his save percent above expected goals
save above expected. He was also just league average, so underlyings don't really
support that he was great either, so looking at his equivalency, he's trending
down to an eighteen percent. Most of the guys here are not super exciting.
Dan Clutier was one that I found as a replacement starter maybe best case
scenario according to this. So Kat, what do your instincts tell us about
Tristan Lennox. He's an interesting one too, because he was a part of
that draft year of kids who essentially an entire group of them lost their draft
year, if I remember correctly, he didn't get to play at all his
draft year, and he'd had some really good showings playing I believe it was
trip before going to the OHL, and he was looking really promising, he'd
been in some showcases, and then his entire draft year was just gone because
of COVID, and so a lot of those kids were almost operating on a
one year deficit, not only when it came to time that they had in
terms of reps, but in of time spent learning the reads, time spent
learning decision making and consistency, and even getting their technique more finely tuned,
because there's only so much you can do when you're doing essentially one on one
dry land drills. Either with your coach or with yourself during those sort of
quote unquote lost years for those guys. So we saw them guys who were
drafted that year almost looked like a draft eligible guy in their draft plus one
season, and then they looked like guys who were just coming out of that
in their draft plus two years. And so I don't love the numbers he
put up. He wasn't playing for an amazing team, but he also really
lost just a key year of crucial development for his game, and he's a
bigger goaltender, so he needed that time to get that decision making in there.
So I don't I'm not super wild by him. But the Islanders are
a team that can take risks, right. They have like we said,
they have that long term elite Number One. They can take guys who maybe
look like they had some promise, and then we need to dig a little
deeper to figure out what they need to reach that promise, because they don't
need this guy to be ready this year, next year, even in the
next two to three years. He could be three to four years off from
being good almost allah Jordan Bennington, and they'd be fine. So he looks
like a project for them. We will see how that project goes. But
he had some good flashes for a guy his size. He looked like he
had some really fun speed to his game before he got drafted, So we
will see how that goes. Thanks so much, keV for giving us your
instincts on the New York Islanders' goalies. We'll be back right after this dig
the Dynasty Dig New York Islanders edition. I'd like to say we saved the
best for last or second to last, but I can't because Victor's rankings have
the Islanders thirty second, dead last in the National Hockey League. They only
had one pick to try to improve that situation in the top one hundred this
year. Danny Nelson was selected forty ninth overall from the national team development program.
Nonetheless, Victor, we will soldier through and we'll start that with your
no brainer. Who is it? Yeah, our no brainer, A little
bit subdued no brainer. But Calli o'dellias is going to be our no brainer.
And he was a twenty twenty two second round pick by the Aisles,
twentieth d off the board in a super stacked, D heavy draft that twenty
twenty two drafts Delia six to one hundred and eighty five pounds left handed.
D part of that Jew Gardens quartet if you want to include him with the
forwards Ogrin Oaceland and Lekkannamaki. And as a reminder, Drew Gardens was relegated
in twenty one to twenty two. He had one goal tennis sist for eleven
points and forty three games with Drew Garden, who was just absolutely drowning defensively.
They had a really rough time in the SHL that year and he will
be sorry. That was last year with the hockey hels Fensken and he really
did his best, but the whole team struggled. He'll be back with Drew
Gardens in twenty three, twenty four. Who's about to start playing any day
now, or by the time you're hearing this, that probably would have started
already. He has signed his entry level but probably one to two years away
from coming to North America. So that's about a little bit about him.
But we need to know more about him, and from that we're going to
hear from our FHL scout. Yes we will, Victor are FHL scout.
Brandon talks about Odelis. He's a nimble skater, light on his edges,
moves into way reminiscent of someone four inches shorter and twenty pounds lighter. That's
good fluid mobility in all directions, and will use this odd or orthodox pivot.
His strike can be a bit foreshortened and is without much power or torque.
Passinger and handling inconsistent in his puck movement. Shows flashes of creativity and
brilliance making backhand feeds under pressure or long stretch passes up the boards. But
then there are times you will carry the puck along the boards deep into the
ozone and we'll pull attention to him and doing so. Would like to see
Brandon would like to see some more of those rushes, like centering passes,
circling the net or even driving the net and steady off in button hooks or
stops up to shovel the puck back up high shooting. Like his passes,
it lacks a certain oomph or wow factor. Odelius is quite efficient in his
shot movement past patterns, which results in a faster release without much wind up
into the shot IQ Vision Panic Meter, et cetera. Odelius does not handle
pressure very well, often moves the puck without purpose and with haste, uses
skating to stay out of the most direct pressure, but it becomes a worry
when observing space and time collapse around him while he is the puck carrier.
Very little deliberate patience in his game for checking, often the very last player
to enter the ozone. Not a single activation off the rush that Brandon observed.
Defense. One of the bright spots gap control and stick work. When
defending away against a newly gained zone entry, his stick looks light in his
hands and he flourishes it with speed and accuracy, proving to be a disruptive
obstacle. He's easily, though outworked and out muscled in puck battles along the
boards. So the best asset of all this was the fluid skating and mobility.
The biggest concern panicked processing, speed and choices, lack of next level
tools or wow factor. The top tier outcome foreseeing for Adelius from Brandon bottom
pair, shutdown d middle pair on a shallow team fifteen to twenty five points,
very few peripherals, fiftieth percentile median outcome for him career semi pro.
Maybe some time spent in the AHL stylistic comparable boy Brandon had a hard time
with this one. Uniqueness, posture and style doesn't really stand out. Maybe
Philip Deno with more graceful wheels in twenty five percent of the intensity, grip,
compete and drive. Huh interesting. Let's do the NHL Rank King comparisons.
It's not looking good as far as his p NHL E equivalent. It's
pretty low compared to even not even reaching up to a second line potential here,
although one of his similarity scores is Brent Burns, so take that for
what it's worth. Calliodelius. We're going to put in the NHL Rank King
Mason Black's head to head Twitter poll against Mattias Havilid, who was taken about
twenty picks earlier in the twenty twenty two NHL Entry Draft in that second round,
and Odelius is not able to carry this one off. Mattias have a
lead wins fifty nine to forty one percent. Victor, are you gonna take
up for your earlier drafted shark as being better than this? No brainer?
Definitely not my shark, but yes he is. I think better and I
think you said his name right too. I believe it's have a lead,
which I would have thought have a lid, but I think it's heavy lead.
And yeah, so he these both these guys are depth later options.
I have them both ranked in the eighties on my prospect rank sheets. So
none of these guys are super interesting. Although if you want to believe early
season numbers, Mattias have a lead for linkoping three assists in three games.
There you go. His pnhil is off the charts right now. Mason just
posted his first first pnhile of the season and it's it's pretty high for Matias
heavy lead, so I think he's like over one hundred pnhly. Obviously that's
way too early to say anything about, but that's great early production. And
Adelius hasn't started yet but we'll soon. And I think that Heavilyad is just
a little bit more offensive. He's a little bit more dynamic. He is
smaller, though, so if you are worried about that he's five' ten
is heavi Lyad And Adelius is as you mentioned, tall, much taller.
He's a six' one, so it shouldn't have the size issues. But
Heavily is just I would think a better skater, more competitive, and I
think these guys are both general. I would probably look the other way and
find a different option if I could. But if I had to choose between
these two, I would take Matias have a lead, and we don't really
have an annointed future power play defenseman in San Jose, and I'm not sure
that it would be heavy lead, but he would. He could certainly be
in the conversation in a couple of years, so I would take him.
When you look at the hockey prospecting between these two, they're both pretty low.
O'delius has ten percent chance of being a star, have lead three percent.
They're both low in their NHL or probability, so neither one looks too
exciting. But o'deliz does look a little bit better. And then just looking
at Odeliz's comps, he's got some guys like Nick Malos who don't are not
that exciting, Michael Burdinski, there's some Oli Mata who he looks that's a
pretty average producer. You look at the j fresh card and he's one percent
chance of being a star and just three percent chance of being an NHLer,
which is very low. I think his NHL or probability is much higher than
that. But overall, yeah, as the thirty second overall ranks suggests for
this team, they're no brainer, not so brainfull Jesse. Yeah, then
we will try to move on to the next guy. Maybe things will look
up here. Who's the need to know prospect? The need to know is
William dufour. I was thinking about making him the no brainer, but there's
some reasons to maybe be a little skeptical about this guy, and I'll mention
them as we go through. But to four twenty twenty fifth round pick.
So the fact that we've been talking about him is great. Six to two
hundred and sixteen pound right wing. He had a pretty awesome transition from the
Q last season, where he was almost two points per game for the Saint
john Sea Dogs, to the AHL, where he had twenty one goals twenty
seven assists for forty eight points and sixty nine games with Bridgeport of the AHL,
that's pretty fantastic. He played one game in the for the Islanders,
no points. He was on the ice for two goals against. Not too
exciting, but also not necessarily his fault. He's pretty close to being nhlready.
He might even be competing for a spot in camp as we are recording
this, they're just opening training camps and he's got two years leapt on his
entry level deal. So let's hear a little bit more about what makes William
Defour a little bit exciting though from our FHL scout, Yes, Sir,
our Fahl scout in this case is Austin and here's what he has to say
about Defour. He's a good skater, isn't overly quick, but mobile,
has a decent transition game that could take him a long way into being entrusted
two way forward passing and handling. Passing is not his main strength, but
for has shown he knows how to be a productive playmaker with good patients with
the puck. Not a great playmaker, but very good at getting assists.
Not the most creative, but we'll have more chances next season to do so.
Shooting before has shown a strong eye for the net at every level who's
played at managed to continue burying pucks with his massive boom of a shot.
Puts a lot of strength into that shot, which can be a deadly release
with more training. IQ. As alluded to in passing, he does have
good patients and calmness with a puck. Not a panicky player, always has
had a good eye for the game and has shown he can translate those assets
to the pros. For checking, doesn't do a whole lot of that,
but he can get into the corners in battle for the puck. Away from
the puck, he doesn't play much of a role, but isn't someone who
plays too gently, if you want to put it that way. With more
time in the pros before, may become more comfort with that aspect. Defense.
There's been some improvement into for his defensive game six to three, but
not overly physical, but he has shown a greater willingness to engage in defensive
play and the best asset Defore's strong offensive awareness dominant shot release could be a
twenty goal season in the AHL, something he could replicate in the NHL in
a few years. A lot of control in a strong shooting motion that could
be tricky for goalies to stop. Biggest concern it's an NHL game, but
it's not clear how high his upside is. He's worked hard this season,
but needs to finish rounding up his game before he could be viewed as any
kind of top six player. The top tier outcome for defour possible future middle
six forward with potential for fifty to sixty points at best, although forty to
fifties more likely if he can't be top six, maybe a third line roll
with a two way skill set and the fiftieth percentile outcome below Tier three.
Although a decent bash is possible with this two way game, he doesn't have
the play making creativity to get even if he gets twenty goals were much more
in assists, limiting his chance of being a fifty pointer and stylistic comparable.
While maybe not an entirely stylistic comparison, nyhlers fan would be lucky to see
him emerge as Cal Clutterbuck with a better shot, maybe a mixture of Clutterbuck's
physicality with Anthony Bovillier's offense. The NHL rank King Mason Black put William de
four into his p NHL E equivalency model, and after cresting between second and
first line potential in terms of translation last year, he's trended back down to
second line forty point type of scoring. Most the best comparable in the model
Matthew Joseph. So we'll see what that amounts to William de four in the
x poll that went up there was de four versus owen Beck. Hey.
De four was a fifth round pick in twenty twenty. Beck was just at
the top of the second round just a year ago. Hi Montreal Canadian draftd
and Owen Beck truns William de four here sixty three to thirty seven percent.
Victor. Is that an accurate outcome for the relative positions of these two prospects.
Yeah, I think so. I know that people are really excited about
de four and I get it. I understand like he really popped off in
his last couple of seasons, and that is definitely better than not doing that.
What's better than popping off really late, it's popping off earlier in your
career. And so that's the big rub on de four is basically, do
you believe this late increase in production. The first couple of seasons in the
queue, he basically did the equivalent of nothing, of someone that's not worthy
of being drafted, And then he went to Saint John and just absolutely tore
it up and did really well in HL. There's no doubt about that.
Like his HL season was impressive, but it also he's a bit older,
He's going into his a twenty two season. This is how much do you
believe all this? And I'm skeptical. I'm not sure that Beck is going
to be too much better. I think if you want someone who's close to
being NH already and could could make believers out of people and can defy the
statistical odds, then sure take to four because he's ready, He's there,
he's competing for a spot. I do think Beck is a better overall player
and someone who probably will stick in the lineup more, but he also might
be more of a middle six defensive type of player that would be obviously a
bit disappointing. That's if you want to wait a little bit and hope that
Beck can increase his scoring, then then I'll probably just take him. But
if you want someone who's ready, then Defour is fine. Either one of
these guys are probably going to make or break it for you. But if
you can find someone they would really believe that Defour is going to be fantastic
and has seventy plus point upside, then trade him to that person for something
better would be my advice. If you look at the hockey prospecting, both
these are pretty similar and pretty disappointing to four, even though he had this
incredible D plus three season in the HL. Even if you look at the
ranking as you mentioned, the pnhle is pretty low. We're talking about forty
five. All that amounts to not too exciting. And Beck all similar in
his D plus two season, just down to two percent chance of being a
star. So both these are pretty depressed in terms of their star potential.
If you look at other comps to four in the Hockey Prospecting model, no
one here is really that exciting. There's a bunch of average producers, guys
that have turned out to be at best average, so no one really too
exciting. And the j Fresh model has him at two percent chance of being
a star, twenty four percent chance of being an NHL or so. A
little bit higher on that as they're usually pretty pessimistic on that. But overall,
I think i'd just be selling on William four. I'd rather I'm hoping
he proves everybody wrong, but I'm not gonna buy into that. I'm gonna
sell if I can get anything interesting. So let me know what people might
be offering, and if you can offload him, do that last up to
keep your eye on Victor keep your eye on is Samuel bull Duke, twenty
nineteen second round pick, six foot four two and twenty pounds left handed D.
His third season in the HL was last season, but he did have
some NHL time too. Seventeen games with the Islanders, two goals, one
assist, fifty six games with Bridgeport of the HL ten goals and twenty five
assists. That was pretty nice. He's probably the seventh on the D chart
on the depth chart, but he could see some significant NHL action with an
injury to the top six, and he has two years left on his entry
level. When you look at some of his underlyings, it's actually pretty disappointing
in terms of his expected goals against for sixty, but he has some sort
of average coursing numbers and his offensive impacts are modest, so definitely some room
to grow and not the biggest sample size there on a very sheltered role with
seventeen games, but there's still some potential here with bull Duke, and let's
hear a little bit more about that with our FHL scout. Yes, indeed,
Austin once again with Samuel bull Duke's scouting report. Skating at the AHL
level, he surprised into skating growth. Of course, that six to four
frame is going to hinder his chance to be explosive defender, but he showed
signs of being able to weave around defenders traits, unlike the usually defensive minded
Bolduke. It was a nice change of pace in passing and handling. Much
like his skating, he's shown improvements in both stick handling and playmaking, having
more of a willingness to challenge as an offensive threat when given the chance.
Doesn't have the most accurate hands, but has shown that he can improve in
that aspect. It's not a certainty if he'll be generating offense in the NHL,
but it's possible. The shooting, like his passing, Bolduck isn't a
certain goal scorer at the NHL level, but he hasn't been afraid to take
shot attempts. His ten goals led ahl bridgepoard for defenseman, but still has
his work to bring his offense to NHL caliber. The IQ Austin sees Boldwock
is having good composure both in the A and end. Boldock lacks the shakiness
in a man in man defensive rookies. Many defensive rookies and shows good position
awareness with a veteran like protection of his defensive end. For checking, not
a whole lot of the physical size of Buldock was showing in the NHL.
Instead, he got the defensive stalwart who focused on keeping the puck away from
his own zone less of the lack of interest, but appears to be more
of a trust in his veteran teammates his defense buldic six y four, so
it's a little surprise he possesses a good defensive game. Defensive IQ is quite
decent, blending a mix of brain and brawn to be able to defend one
on one matchups or in puck battles his best asset. Then, he looked
comfortable enough in the NHL level, including the playoffs, where it looks like
he can make the leap quite easily, likely as soon as next season.
His stay at home game with flashes of offensive potential and smarts can make him
a reliable It would be nice to see some of the offensive improvement Buldock made
in the AHL translate to the NHL. Event his like ler his top tier
role a bottom four defender, stay at home second line defender may be the
best bet. He played with Ryan Pulock in the playoffs and did well after
taking the style of the defensively sound pooh Lock. There's a lot of defensive
minded defenseman in the Islanders lineup. Fiftieth percentile median outcome. Maybe a Tier
three defender below average bash twenty five to thirty five points could be possible at
his best with either direction, depending on how he develops the defensive game seems
safe, though stylistic comparable a similarity to Derek Forbert, with both being big
body defenders with good protective qualities and decent mobility for their size. Fellow Islanders
teammates Adam Pellican Scott Mayfield would be hopeful for what he can do as an
nhller. The NHL rank King Mason Black sees that Samuel Bouldock had a nice
bounce back from a rough season the year before. It has risen in the
equivalency to about second line potential. Of course, given that Boldock has now
made his NHL debut, we no longer get comparables. Buldock up against another
guy who has had a little bit of NDHL time, that being Jack Wrathbone
and in terms of the poll, the vote out on X Bolduke defeats Rathbone
soundly seventy to thirty percent. Victor, is that how you rank these two?
They're just they're very different you'. The our scout mentioned how defense isn't
as much of an issue for Bulduke. That is more of a problem for
a Wrathbone has always been his issue. He's definitely more of an offensive minded
guy. Last season in Abbotsford, Rathbone had an amazing point production. He
had forty points in thirty nine games. This past season he dropped significantly and
he was under half point per game. But if you look under the hood,
his course in that really strong twenty one to twenty two season was barely
positive, basically neutral. He was not driving play. He was just all
offense. This past season he was dominant in the AHL. He had fantastic
underlying numbers and play driving numbers to suggest that Rathbone has really improved offensively.
And if he can do that, I think he can unleash some of that
offense that we've all been excited about for a long time. So I like
Rathbone for the upside. Bul Duke certainly seems more like a legit NHLer in
terms of being able to you know, has the size, the frame and
the skating, so he just seems like he's a shorter path and can stick.
But he also bull Duke probably doesn't have as much offensive upside anymore.
He's still someone who did quite well in junior offensively and okay in his third
AHL season offensively, but I'm not sure there's much upside with Bulduke. So
he's someone that I'm interested in kind of just holding while he has actually have
him in several leagues, and I'm planning on holding him just until he hits
that minor limit and then tossing him aside. But Wrathbone is someone who I'm
more interested in holding onto and potentially could see some secondary offensive minutes behind Quinn
Hughes obviously in Vancouver unless he gets moved to another team. So I think
that I would actually prefer Wrathbone for long term upside, whereas bull Duke is
just more of a hold him until he's no longer an interest kind of guy.
And if you look at the hockey prospecting, bull Duke has really trend
it down from eight percent to just one percent chance of being a star,
so still really low and Rathbone graduated the model at twenty three percent chance of
being a star. That HL season didn't hurt, I'm sure, but now
we're just focused on him being able to be defensively responsible enough. And then
if you look at some of other Bull Duke's comps, mostly they're just replacement
level producers, guys like Mark Barbario, and I guess Brent Burds is one
of these comps, but he's someone who broke the model, so I don't
think saving a Bull Duke is going to be Brent Burns esque. And then
if you look at the Freshmodel, Bull Duke zero percent chance of being a
star ranked seven hundred and twenty first in that model, which is pretty awful.
Thirteen percent chance of being an NHL or two hundred and thirty one,
he seems like he has a decent chance of being an NHL or Yeah,
Bull Duke, he's someone who may still have some untapped potential, but I
think he's more just a guy that you hold on to while he has minor
eligibility. Jesse, that's gonna do. If we're gonna come right back and
close out the show. A couple of things you mentioned before we get out
here today. Number One, play your leagues on fan Tracks. There's still
time you could draft a league to play this year. Probably uh, probably
don't want to do a slow draft at this time, but you know you
can start a draft after day one. Heck, we even did a draft
in December one, so don't worry terribly about that. Customized schedules, whatever
you need to do, you can. You know, you can like combine
weeks in the fan Track scheduling system. There's all kinds of things you can
do in the customization, hundreds of different scoring setting. Some of it's in
a premium version of the product, but a whole ton of it is in
the free version ten different sports. You can also read all about your fantasy
sports on fan Tracks. It's a portion called Fantrac's HQ. You'll see the
little articles right there on your roster screen if you're on the desktop version.
They are going nuts writing fantasy hockey content this year and rankings and team previews
and under the Radar guys. Proud of the crew that is going there.
And there are podcasts, podcasts for other sports. There's even a little bit
of talk about more hockey podcasting going on. I'm not sure that's officially in
the books yet, but just throwing that teaser out there. We also do
other things. We're part of the fan Tracks podcast network. We're also part
of the Dabber podcast network, and Victor does writing at Dabber Prospects and does
a second podcast there with our buddy Peter Harlan. It's called Dabber Prospects Report.
If you like this show, you'll probably like that one too, because
there's a lot of talk. I think they're getting reports out of the the
rookie camps, rookie games, and preseason stuff. There's going to be all
kinds of cool stuff in that feed. I do a second podcast, it's
called Dynasty Sports Life. My episode this week I kind of went around the
world, I called it, and answered some listener questions on players in all
four sports. Because that show was specifically to cover Dynasty Sports across for different
sports, hockey, basketball, baseball, and football. We'd like to thank
our content curator, Nate, who has done a ton of work Nate Duffitt
on the preparations behind the scenes. Our show notes are voluminous thirty forty pages
worth of charts and graphs that Victor and I use to conduct our interviews and
stuff. He does a lot of the assistance on the prep behind the scenes,
so thank you to Nate and Kevin also has been pitching in and doing
a lot of good work behind the scenes. You can rate review this podcast
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much appreciated if you give us all the stars and a few kind words,
because this is the time of your people are listening to fantasy hockey podcast preparing
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can reach us. You can always email us also Fantasy Hockeylife at gmail dot
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not just us, lots of other fantasy hockey crazies. That's really more of
the people doing the talking there, and we sure do appreciate them. Thanks
for listening once again to the New York Islanders and until next time, keep
been that. Fantasy Hockey Life